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WILLIAM  AND  MARY  COLLEGE 


QUARTERLY 


volume 


1899-1900 


IDGlilliam  anb  /Ibar^g  Collecjc 

t. 

©uarterl?  Ibietorical  fiiiagastne* 

Vol.  Vni.  JULY.  1899.  No.  1. 


MAKY  OF  JOIIX  BLAIR.^ 

(Continued  from  Vol.  VII.,  p.  153.) 

Copied  from  an  Almanac  for  1751,  Preserved  in  Virginia  Uis- 

torical  Society. 

January. 

1.  Buckland  pays  SOO,  siippos^  to  1200  acres.     Col.  Burwoll 
says  Cole-  had  notice  to  survey. 

2.  Mr.  King  tells  me  my  goods  will  come  to  James  Tovrn; 
Diiist  send  tliither. 

4.  Mr.  Travis  and  Mr.  Mecklin  promise  y""  car.  Bo^  Sandy 
Iioid's  cow,  and  p*^  50^  for  her. 

I  7.  Mr.  Cary  disap^^  and  hired  ano^  vessell  for  y"  Gov'". 

5.  But  much  ice  in  j^  river  at  Col.  Burweli's. 

9.  Had  a  letter  from  Col.  Buckner  ab^  Mr.  Pelli™. 

10.  3Ir.  Prentis  sent  do^Ti  his  cart,  by  whom  I  writt  to  Col. 
Hunter. 

13.  Heard  of  Wm.  Taylor,  drown'd  in  Carolina. 
1-i.  Our  Spinnet  came  home  lame. 

IS.  Mr.  Pelham  approved  of    it;,  and    of    the  musick  sent 
v.-irh  it. 
I  IS.  bimmons  and  McGuire  were  hang^. 

10.  P'^_Mr.  Waller  for  corn,  and  shew^  him  a  letter. 

22.  Col.  Poscow  w^^  me  ab^  J.  Blair— went  w^^^  Richnrds  to 
vlov^^  house,  and  had  m.uch  talk  w^^  Mr.  P.  Johnson. 

23.  Mr.  Richards  gave  in  proposals  in  a  very  loose  manner. 
^['oke  w*-'^  3Ir.  Crosby  ab^  J.  B^  note.     Mr.  Warrino-ton  si-ned 

■  bnnd  to-dav. 


I  'Tat3  is  the  supplementary  portion  referred  to  on  paee  L53,  note  2, 

I       *<>  yritten  on  the  blank  leaves  in  the  back  of  the  almanacr 

I  '  William  Cole,  of  Buckland,  Charles  Citv  countv.     See  Quarterly 


'•-try  ,, 


2  William  and  Maky  College  Quarterly. 

24.  Writt  to  Uvs.  Prentis  al)^  Cre,-:well. 

25.  Wheatly  shew^  rne  that  he  had  finish'*  ^Ir.  Skclton's  work, 
but  Skelton  took  uo  caro  of  it.     Settled  w^^  ^Ir.^.  iJiiiiond. 

26.  Sent  off  my  lef  to  Col.  Lewis,  a  packet.  Mr.  Johnson  in- 
formed me  of  what  was  said  by  C — r  and  others  al)^  their  sub- 
scrip"''  and  of  y^  press^  him.    This  was  told  me  y^  22nd. 

30.  Mr.  Dawson  inform'*  me  whiit  Simmonds  said  relating  to 
Presley's  murder.^  Mr.  Taswell  made  an  entertainment  on  his 
succeed^  Mr.  Clack.     Pahner  very  rude. 

31.  Skelton  sett  off  to  go  up  to  bury  his  wife,  having  got  a 
black  coat  for  it.  Ptec**  a  letter  from  Col°.  Hunter  and  ^laur"^® 
Jones  ab*^  the  tombstone.  It  is  now  at  the  ferry  in  its  vray  to 
James  Town.  I  writt  to  Mr.  Travis  and  Mr.  Mc^Macklin  to  get 
it  out  there  and  into  the  church-yard  on  my  acco*.  Settled  w-^ 
the  sheriff  of  Hanover  and  p'*  him  for  my  915  acres  there,  but 
did  not  pay  him  Mansfield's  note  on  me,  it  being  mislaid.  So 
that  is  refer"*  to  his  coming  down.  I  settled  Capt.  Keeiing's 
acco*  w*^  him  and  took  his  hand  to  it.  But  am  to  send  up  to 
Hanov''  court  }^  niortg-®  &:c^.,  and  the  exec''^'  bond. 

February. 

2.  Last  night  the  college  bell  toiled  they  say  ab*  an  hour,  very 
slow  and  regular,  till  some  went  up  and  stopt  it,  who  saw  nobody. 
Sent  up  Keeling's  bonds  and  mortgage  in  a  letter  to  H.  Gilbert 
^  Mansf**  Blagrave  w^^  a  bond  for  him  and  Eich'*.  Keeling  to 
execute  in  lieu  thereof  and  send  me  from  their  court. 

4.  Mr.  ]Macklin  tells  me  the  tombstone  came  to  Jam.es  Town 
y^  2*^,  but  low  tides  hinder  y^  landing  it ;  ab^  -sv"^  he  promises  his 
care. 

o.  Gave  Ealph  Crutchf**  a  note  on  Mr.  Prentis  for  £S,  5. 
Spent  the  even^  (after  a  visit  at  Mr.  Everard's)  at  Doct"  Gil- 
meifs;  and  betho*  me  of  the  way  of  coming  off  even  w^^ — 

^"On  Friday  last  James  McGuire  for  murder  and  William  Sim- 
mons for  robbbery  (supposed  an  accoiupliee  in  the  murder  of  Col.  Pres- 
ley) were  executed  in  this  city.  They  both  behaved  penitently,  and  con- 
fessed the  facts  for  which  they  died." — Virginia  Gazette,  January  24. 
1751.  Colorsel  Presley  thus  mentioned  was'  Colonel  Peter  Pre-ley,  of 
"Northumberland  House,"  who  Avas  murdered  by  his  own  servants.  He 
was  the  last  of  his  name  in  Northumberland.  His  daughter  and  heiress, 
Winifred,  married  Anthony  Thornton,  of  Stafford  coimty,  and  was 
mother  of  Hon.  Presley  Thornton,  of  the  Colonial  Council,  who  died 
December  8,  17G9. — Quarteuly  IV.,  pp.  93,  1G3. 


William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  3 

7.  Walk'd  wi^*"  Col.  Burwcll  to  his  plowing  and  had  his  acco* 
of  raising  his  hoggs. 

9.  Took  Mr.  Crosbie's  oblige  for  £40.  Docf  G disap- 
point'^ of  his  expect  a"". 

11.  J.  Blair  offer"^  a  fiirth^  mortg^^  and  pow'"  of  att°. 

12.  But  went  up  this  morn^  w^'^  out  w*^^  Jamison.  Yestry  to- 
day agreed  to  lengthen  y^  church;  and  being  a  full  vestry  the 
gate  before  it  was  again  disputed,  but  carried  by  9  to  4. 

13.  Gave  Mr.  Palmer  Jno.  Terry's  bond,  also  two  bonds  of 
Lane  Cookson's  for  w'^^  Capt.  Terry  was  security  and  Jno.  Terry 
assum^  also  Pemberton's  acco"^  in  all  about  £126. 

14.  Eec<^  18  Oet^  Fines  from  Sec^'"  office.  Col.  Patton's  mes- 
fenger  return'd  with  Mr.  Presid*^^  letter  and  mine  writ  yesterday. 
Picc'^  a  demand  for  ^Ir.  Bowden  and  Partn^  from  Mr.  Am- 
bler for  the  capital.  Mrs.  Gooslcy,  I  hear  now,  went  up  yester- 
day to  be  cook  at  Sandy  Point. 

15.  Paid  Cole  for  20  hides  to  be  dd  £6,  10.  Matt  and  Simon 
gone  off  together. 

16.  Each  had  cloths  making  at  Hornsby's  of  goods  stolen 
from  Mr.  Eandolph. 

18.  Simon  surrend^  himself,  and  is  in  prison. 

19.  Gave  Sam  Wallace  a  note  on  liis  mother  and  sister  for 
Wills's  debt  to  me.    Hear  sad  news  of  poor  Mr.  Piandolph. 

20.  This  even^  Mr.  Muir  fr°^  Presid^  here.  I  heard  to-day 
that  Mr.  Eaton  recover^  the  land  last  H  y^  14th  in  X.  Kent 
court.  Heard  of  gr*^  subserip^^  in  K.  Wm.  and  IST — ward  towards 
teat  of  gov^'  at  ]S"ew  Castle.^ 

^  New  Castle  was  situated  in  Hanover  county,  on  the  Pamunkey 
river.  Above  it  four  or  five  miles  was  Hanover  Town,  anciently  called 
Kt lire's  Warehouse.  Both  places  were  rivals  of  Williamsburg  for  the 
iu-\v  capitol  at  this  time.  The  country  arciiiiLi  was  a  beautiful  agricul- 
tural section,  on  which  the  finest  kind  of  tobacco  was  raised.  Gradu- 
:'-Hy  tl'.e  tobacco  fields  were  converted  into  cornfields,  and  the  channel  of 
t-i«'  Pamunkey  at  this  point  was  much  filled  up,  so  that  the  numerous 
"''  v.jw  and  schooners  that  visited  the  section  had  ceased  to  come  fiity 
y^-ars  later.  Both  places  became  deserted.  The  attempt  to  fix  the  capi- 
^'ki  of  the  colony  on  the  Pamunlvey  was  attributed  to  John  Robinson, 
'•''--  ^[x'aker  of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  who  resided  in  King  and  Queen 
y-unty  near  by.  At  the  meeting  of  the  General  Assembly  John  Blair 
^  ^'!  to  apologize  to  the  House  for  pointing  out  their  Speaker  and  saying 
J^lou.i,  ''There  goes  the  man  who  is  at  the  bottom  of  this  hellish  plot." 


4  William  axd  ]^[ary  College  Quarterly. 

21.  Advertised  Matt,  and  heard  of  his  being  taken.  Dr.  Gil- 
mer and  my  sister  here;  bat  no .    Gardiner  fought  w^*'  Sakie 

fr'^  A  Eeids. 

22.  Stopt  the  advertisement  before  printed.  Writ  to  Col. 
Lewis  by  Mr.  Muir.  attended  Mattes  examination  before  Mr. 
Holt  and  made  discoverys. 

24.  Mr.  Comr^  pr*^.  ag^  fornication  and  adultery  and  p.  m.  on 
y®  sin  and  destruction  of  Sodom. 

25.  Gave  the  fines,  being  IS,  to  J.  Cocke.  Mrs.  Burwell  and 
others  at  Billiards.  Jno.  Burwell  and  Betty  Blair  Enter'd  w'^ 
Mrs.  Dimond  to  learn  to  read  this  day. 

28.  Writt  to  Pres^  and  sent  an  Eng.  letter  ^  express,  also 
writt  to  Sher.  Xancem*^  w^^  Jacks"^  ven.  fac^. 

March. 

I.  Mr.  King^  shew^  me  Symers  protest. 

3.  Sed  news  from  coast  of  Africa;  a  ship  burnt,  &c.,  and 
great  mortality  am^  y^  slaves  of  another.  Query  What  done  on 
jndgm*^  ag'  Mr.  Field. 

9.  Mr.  Warrington  w^^  me  ab*  his  mad  wench.  I  sent  yes- 
terday a  letter  to  the  ferry  for  Mr.  Eiddick  with  a  subp'^  for 
Pasquo  Turner  ag^  Lowe  Jackson. 

10.  Col.  Boiling  came  to  bo  an  evidence  to^°"°^. 

II.  Eec^  a  letf  fr.  Presid^  ab^  a  prohibition  and  writt  to  Mr. 
I^elson  and  sent  it  to  him.  I  bo^  at  J.  C.  Court  20001b  tob°  at 
Hog  Xeck  or  at  Coll.  or  Capitol  Land^,  at  IG,  and  3000  at  Lit- 
tlepages,  at  15  |  8,  to  be  p^  at  receiving  the  notes. 

12.  I  writt  to  Presid"^  aV  a  prohibition  and  shew^  it  to  the 
Com^,  as  writ  in  his  name,  who  approved  of  it.  Helpt  Mrs. 
Stith  and  spent  the  even*  at  Mr.  Cock's,  and  had  cake. 

11.  Mr.  Christian  promises  to  settle  and  pay  me  on  the  Sth 
of  April  next. 

15.  Vestry  app^  Col.  Burw^,  Mr.  Holt  and  me  to  treat  with 
undertakers  for  an  add'^  to  ye  church. 

16.  My  mill  stone  broke,  y^  hoop  bursting,  had  just  writt  \^ 
day  before  to  Mr.  Lyde  for  a  mill  stone  and  for  a  spinnet,  <ii:c. 

^Mr.  Walter  King  came  to  Virginia  from  Bristol  in  1723  as  partner 
with  John  King,  Esq.,  Lyonel  Lide,  Esq.,  John  Lewis.  Jeremiah  Jen- 
nings, and  Thomas  Long,  merchants,  all  of  the  city  of  Bristol,  to  man- 
age the  ironworks  set  up  in  the  parisli  of  Sittenbourn,  King  George 
county,  Va.     (Deed  recorded  in  King  George  County,  August  1723.) 


William  axd  Maky  College  Quarterly.  5 

20.  Spoke  to  Mr.  Waller  aV  judg'  ag'  :\rr.  Field  to  y«  King, 
and  found  ex"  for  £37  ster.  stop'^  by  late  Preside 

21.  Heard  of  L.  Jackson's  coin«  and  imprisonm'^  at  Phila*. 
Mr.  Holt  promised  to  secure  Mrs.  Bennet's  rent  to  nie^,  £12,  the 
25th  of  Oct^  next,  or  till  she  leave  it. 

22.  Eec*^  letter  fr.  J  as.  Blair;  gave  some  copys  to  I\Ir.  With. 
2S.  Attended  the  President  in  a  council  at  his  house.     Mr. 

Nelson,  Mr.  Comissy,  Mr.  Clrymes  and  myself  only  attend^  As- 
sembly prorog*^.  Had  an  order  for  rights,  and  advised  the 
granting  Don — 's  petition.  Spoke  to  y*"  Presid^  aV  the  late 
Presid'  Lee's  hav^  staid  execut"^  of  a  judgm*  to  y""  king  ab^  £38 
St.,  and  had  his  order  for  his  rent  corn  at  10. 

30.  Writt  again  to  Jas.  Blair  and  ab^  Mrs.  Cole's  com. 

April. 

1.  Writt  to  Col.  Boiling  aV  d°.  and  Mrs.  Blair. 

2.  Writ  to  her  and  Mr.  Fleming,  and  stopt  water  at  lower 
mill  this  morning. 

3.  Heard  Mrs.  Blair  left  Westo'"  to  go  to  Cobbs  yesterday. 

6.  Finish^  inv°  and  lett^^  to  Lyde  and  Hanb^,  dat^  30  ult., 
was  exam*^  as  an  evidence  in  w*  I  knew  nothing,  rec^  lett'",  ^ 
Boson  of  Blagrave's  death,  who,  he  tells  me,  died  on  Thursday 
last,  -f  4th. 

9.  I  promised  Mrs.  Hendriken  to  try  to  build  a  house  for 
them  by  the  fall. 
v/      10.  Skelton  wants  a  meeting  of  coniitty. 

11.  Eee^  a  let^  fr.  Mrs.  Blair  at  Cobbs,  y^  6th.  Eec<^  fr.  Pres- 
ide Mr.  Muir's  comput''  hand^  by  Mr.  Corbin. 

18.  Open'd  a  letf  to  Pres*  for  a  sher.  for  Frederick  before 
some  of  y«  coun^,  as  they  had  no  sheriff. 

20.  Enclosed  a  coron""^  com"^  to  Col.  Boiling,  and  gave  it  to 
^Ir.  Stark.  The  court  reject*^  the  motion  for  a  prohib^  to  y^ 
Court  of  Admiralty,  after  I  had  prepared  their  answ'"  for  grant- 
ing it.  ^ 

23.  Had  a  gen^  meeting  of  the  Cape  Company  at  Wetherb'^^. 
lo  of  27  being  present,  when  the  proceed^^  of  j^  comitty  were 
approved  of.  :Mem^  Xealand,  Wm.  Taylor  and  Mrs.  Cole,  also 
Sani>  Dunn,  Brown's  est%  &c. 

30.  I  writ  in  the  name  of  the  council  to  Gov"".  Johnston  w*^  2 
pirates. 


6  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

May. 

3.  Heard  our  1st  whale  bro*'  in  and  3  more  struck,  but  lost.^ 
Mr.  Davis  had  £150  for  loss  of  his  eyes. 

4.  Writ  to  Col.  Boiling  aV  com  at  Coles.  Gave  to  ^Ir.  Rob- 
ert Jones  in  court  to  recover  for  me  in  y^  best  manner  he  could, 
Wm.  Taylor,  his  b^o^  Taylor  security,  their  bond  to  pay  £35  at 
Xm%  1749,  also  another  little  bond  for  £5,  due  in  1742,  and  some 
corn,  which  he  said  the  security  was  very  sufficient  for  viz^  John 
Tharp,  Edm*^  Howel  borrow*^  y^  money. 

6.  Had  letters  %9  Mr.  Burwell. 

7.  Some  fines  for  Champarty,  the  statute  being  on  a  solemn 
argum*  unan^^  adj*^  in  force  here.  Theop^  Field's  fine  refer*^  to  a 
council. 

9.  Mr.  Hunter  want^  to  print  my  speech. 

10.  Traveled  to  Col.  Custis's  in  y^  coach. 

17.  Saw  a  letf^  to  Lowe  Jackson.  Lenox  had  a  pam^phl^  on 
y®  nature  of  evidence  sent  me  by  Mr.  Preston. 

18.  Eec"^  a  V  fr.  S^  Wm.  Gooch  of  Feb.  25,  w=^  in  a  P.  S\  says 
Col.  Ludwell  is  of  j^  council. 

22.  The  Prince,  alas !  died,  we  hear  now,  on  ^ ,  the  20th  of 
March,  in  his  45  year,  and  Mrs.  Staunton  four  days  after  him. 
Col.  Fairfax,  we  hear,  is  arrived  in  y^  Hatly. 

27.  Mr.  Eichards  now  with  me  ab*  the  Gov^^  house,  and  said 
if 'he  did  it  he  must  have  4  years  to  finish  it.  Qr.  what  to  be 
done. 

28.  Col.  Fairfax  gives  hopes  of  jlr.  Dinwiddle  and  urges 
some  repair  to  the  Gov^^  house.  Mr.  Waller  from  Spots^  had  no 
news  of  the  Presid*.  The  gent°  there  are  content  not  to  move  y* 
seat  of  gov^  if  they  can  have  circuits  held  in  proper  places. 

30.  Gave  my  niad^  ord""  to  Mr.  Webb  for  2  pipes,  and  writ 
ag°  for  Mr.  Prentis,  who  sent  cash. 

^  "Some  principal  gentleman  of  the  colony  having,  by  voluntary  sub- 
scription, agreed  to  fit  out  vessels  to  be  employed  in  the  whale  fishery 
on  our  coast,  a  small  sloop  callled  the  Experiment  was  some  time  asro 
sent  on  a  cruize,  and  we  have  the  pleasure  to  acquaint  the  public  that 
she  is  now  returned  with  a  valuable  whale.  Tho'  she  is  the  first  vessel 
sent  from  Virginia  in  this  employ,  yet  her  success,  we  hope,  will  give 
encouragement  to  the  further  prosecution  of  the  design,  which,  we  doubt 
not,  will  tend  very  much  to  the  advantage  of  the  colony,  as  well  as  ex- 
cite us  to  other  profitable  undertakings  hitherto  too  much  neglected." — 
Yirginia  Ga-jcttc,  May  2i,  1751. 


Willia:m  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 


June. 

I.  Rec^  a  letter  fr.  Mr.  Nelson  at  Sandy  P'  return^  my  report 
\\^^  a  high  characf  of  it. 

3.  Wormly's  lad  said  to  have  drowned  himself,  but  found 
w^'  his  head  split  open.     Incredible. 

4.  Gol.  Wm.  Randolph  and  his  lady  in  town.  He  visited  the 
works  at  the  capitol.  Sent  my  report  of  the  prisoners  to  the 
President  %1  express;  and  writt  again  to-day  ab*  the  assem- 
bly, caveats,  &c.,  and  pressed  his  attendance. 

6.  After  advising  w*^  Mr.  Xelson  and  Mr.  Comissary,  ord'-^  a 
proclam"^  in  the  President's  name  to  prorogue  the  assembly  to 
H  y^  31st  Octob'',  and  this  only  to  prevent  a  dissolution. 

7.  ^Seal  accuses  Bird  of  sundry  felonys. 

8.  Carried  Taylor  to  James  Town,  and  gave  direct''^  Car- 
ried Col.  Lu dwell' s  lett^  to  be  of  the  council.  Xatt  acquitt^. 
Jos*,  taken  and  escaped  again. 

10.  Drew  up  proposals  and  querys  for  y^  council. 

II.  Offer'd  them  to  their  previous  consid°.  Endeav^  a  meet- 
ing ab*  the  capitol. 

12.  Council  approved  of  my  proposal  for  repairing  the  Gov"^ 
house. 

13.  TTrit  to  Mr.  Bernard  and  Col.  Willis,  to  Mr.  Walthoe. 
Sign'^,  &c^.,  3  regist"  and  freedom,  one  of  w^^  occasion^  a  long 
work  and  difficult^.  Took  mem"^^  from  Col.  Paton,  Mr.  Curry 
and  Col.  Fry,  who  propose  our  ordering  Mr.  Leheup  to  solicit  the 
royal  assent  to  the  land  law,  and  left  some  amendments  to  his 
report.  Col.  Custis  left  £22,  1,  9,  w^^  me  to  pay  to  5  diff^  sheritis 
for  Qt  rents. 

14.  Spoke  this  morn  to  Bird  to  prepare  for  a  long  journey  to 
the  President,  which  he  readily  promised. 

15..  This  even^  Bird  told  me  he  could  not  go  for  the  ordin'' 
allow^«,  and  tho  all  w<^  be  ready  w*^  me  to-night,  he  could  not  sett 
orf  till  c  morn,  and  propos*^  at  first  to  stay  a  day  longer,  but  I 
preV^  for  C . 

16.  And  I  find  this  even^  he  carrys  a  led'  horse. 

17.  He  sett  oif  this  afternoon  w^^  one  horse  only. 

18.  Ord""  the  gardn""  to  go,  for  I  couldn't  bear  him. 

21.  Consult"^  Mr.  Att°  and  Mr.  TValler  ab^  a  doubt  starf^  by 
the  sher.  of  Surry  if  he  co"!  act  as  sher. 


8  William  axd  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

23.  Went  into  mourning  for  the  Prince. 

24.  Paid  Sam^  Allen  for  fodder  by  note  on  P. 

26.  Endors^  a  gen^  court  writt  ag^  r.  sailor. 

27.  Bird  expects  the  Presid^  is  in  Gloster.  But  his  boy  did 
not  find  him  there. 

30.  Mr.  Holt  gave  Jackson  his  afhd*  in  writing  much  fuller 
than  Mr.  Nelson  and  I  rememb^  it. 

July. 

1. 1  deUV^  to  Mr.  Kicli"^  Baker,  of  Isle  of  W^  in  a  seal'd  letter 
direct*^  to  ^Ir.  Sam^  Blow,  of  S°.  Hampton,  a  patent  for  300  acres 
he  sold  for  me  to  Mr.  Parsons,  £30,  10.  0.  I  hear  Mr.  Dinwid- 
dle's baggage  was  buying  when  Capt.  Edw*^  Randolph  came  away 
the  begin^  of  April.  I  hear  the  Presid^  is  not  yet  got  home ;  but 
expected  there  to-morrow.  Col,  Ludwell  dined  here  to-day. 
Ish"'  Nicho^^  acco*^  of  1/  x\lb  in  France. 

2.  Col.  Ludwell  from  York  tells  me  y*  the  Presid*^  is  sick  at 
Hob^iole,  and  has  sent  for  the  papers  thither.  The  rain  this 
even^  forced  him  and  others  into  Prentis's,  where  stayed  till  aV 
2  in  morn^. 

3.  Very  rainy  while  at  Mrs.  Wetherburn's  funer^  He  has 
found  her  hoard  they  say.  I  heard  there  that  the  speaker  had 
a  letter  from  Col.  Beverly  confirming  our  hopes  of  Mr.  Din- 
widdle's coming. 

4.  I  hear  Mr.  E.  Carter  intends  to  build  and  live  at  W^^burgh 
and  to  persuade  all  the  genf"  he  can  to  do  so  too. 

5.  The  Presid^  will  not  sign  the  death  warrants  till  he  has  a 
council.  Mr.  Grymes  here,  and  tells  me  he  saw  the  Presid*^  9 
the  3  at  I7rb%  and  that  he  intend*^  home  in  4  or  5  days,  and 
aftw*^^  to  have  a  council  at  W^^burgh. 

7.  Mrs.  Blair  much  disord*^  by  a  cold  and  lax,  coughs  much, 
hoarse  and  feverish. 

9.  Drew  a  note  on  Mr.  Wetherburn  to  James  Taylor  for  £10, 
lent  him  till  October.  Mr.  Mossom  shew^  me  a  false  dollar,  and 
yet  pleaded  for  Jack"",  w^'  yet  he  w^  had  executed  if  done  soon; 
but  tho*  y®  delay  an  excuse. 

10.  My  mill  I  hear  was  rob'^  on  y®  7th.  Began  to  lay  bricks  in 
morf  at  B'  house. 

12.  Sad  news  of  Presid^^  death;    I  hope  not  so.     Sad  news 


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of  poor  wretch^  Bob  Carter^     I  hope  he  won't  come  to  live  in 
W^-'burgh. 

13.  Rec'*  express  fr.  Col.  Patton  ab^  an  Indian  embassy  from 
the  Chcrokees,  w^^  after  communicate  to  ■\Ir.  Comr^,  I  resoh^  to 
send  to  York  to  be  by  Mr.  Xelson  sent  on. 

14.  Writt  to  Mr.  Nelsons,  and  had  their  answer. 

15.  Consult^  the  Corniss^^  (and  Col.  Lud'  y*^  14)  upon  it. 

16.  I  gave  Mr.  Bacon  5  gnin'  toW^'  build^  his  scliool  and  2 
more  as  my  first  year's  subscript'  to  the  14th  inst.,  when  the  first 
subscrip°^  were  due. 

18.  Eec^  the  Presid^'  letf  to  Col.  Patton  w^^  a  lett^  from  the 
l^elsons  ab*^  it,  both  w^^  I  shew^  to  the  Comiss^.  I  then  dis- 
patch'^ y^  messeng'"  to  Col.  Patton,  and  answer^  the  lett"  fr.  the 
Kelsons. 

22.  Mr.  Waller  shew*^  me  the  Presid^^  letter  order^  a  pardon 
for  Sharp"",  w°^  he  W^  ha  hang'^  as  a  great  runaway  and  rogue; 
but  to  avoid  some  difficulty  as  to  regularity,  he  chose  to  pardon 
him. 

23.  Mr.  Hughs  told  me  of  Jackson's  behavior  in  prison. 

24.  Writ  to  the  Presid*  about  sundrys,  and  particularly  about 
Jackson. 

25.  Mr.  Walthoe  shew*^  me  the  Presid*^  letter  of  the  23d  or- 
der^ a  council  y^  31st,  and  desiring  Col,  Fry's  map  and  report, 
w^^  I  sent  to  Mr.  Walthoe  that  night. 

26.  Capt.  Tate  arriv*^  last  night,  we  hear,  with  near  300 
slaves.  Mr.  Preston,  on  my  enquir^,  tells  me  he  was  there  when 
the  Presid*^  writ  on  9  24th,  and  IMr.  Att''  says  he  heard  y^  council 
was  to  be  next  Thursday,  y^  1st  of  Aug. 

27.  Mr.  Dawson  tells  me  the  Prcsid^-  desires  I  will  have  the 
Indians  accomodated  if  they  come  before  he  comes  over;  and 
says  he  will  consider  my  letter  abo*  Jackson.  I  have  spoke  to 
Finnic,  who  offers  to  accomodate  them  with  the  Apollo. 

28.  Mr.  Dawson  preach*^  on  y^  repentance  of  the  Xinivites 
and  obstinacy  of  the  Jews. 

^  This  -was  the  eccentric  Robert  Carter,  called  ''Councillor  Carter," 
son  of  Robert,  of  Xomonij  (and  Priscilla  Churchill),  who  was  son  of 
Robert  {King)  Carter  (and  his  second  wife,  Betty  Landon),  who  was 
son  of  John  Carter  and  Sarah  Ludlow.  He  married  Frances  Ann 
Tasker,  of  ^larjiand.  He  changed  his  religion  several  times,  freed 
his  slaves,  etc. 


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29.  Sent  express  to  y^  Preside  and  had  kind  an.sw^ 

30.  Dr.  Gilmer  betw°  9  and  10  at  night  inform'^  me  of  Jack- 
son's threats  nie  and  ]Mrs.  Lane's  acco*  of  his  ill  behav"".  : 

31.  Attend"*  the  I'resid'^  in  council,  who  was  ag*  purchase  a 
house  for  the  Gov'"  of  M'Kenzie,  and  ag^  Mr.  Leheups  acco^  of 
£22,  10,  0,  and  desired  Mr.  Fields^  fine  to  be  postp**  awhile,  and 
that  I  w^  draw  a  letter  for  liim  to  the  treasury  on  y®  addition^ 
salary  to  y^  council,  and  on  my  motion  ab^  Jackson,  stopt  me  w^^ 

a  desire  to  hear  nothing  of  it,  &c^.    Mr.  King's  dutys  refer'd  to  • 

the  law,  but  I  believe  will  be  thouccht  due.  ) 

f 

August.  j 

3.  Col.  Ludwell  proposed  that  the  <}ouncil  should  join  in  a  ! 
represent"*  of  Jackson's  case.  j 

4.  Mr.  D"*,  So  run  that  you  may  obtain.  A  p''  offend^  in  one  ! 
point  is  gnilty  of  all.     Corn  come.  i 

5.  Docf  Gilmer  had  10  bar^^  Mr.  Dawson  5  y®  6th.  Sundry  | 
fines  to  y®  king  in  court  hust^  y^  day.  j 

6.  Gave  Thos.  Holt  a  note  on  Prentis  for  p*  £45.  I 

9.  Consult"^  w'^^  Mr.  Xelson,  Mr.  Gr}'me3  and  Mr.  Ludw^  a¥  j 
Jackson,  and  gave  'Mr.  Xelson  my  [6]  papers  to  form  a  repre-  j 
sentation  by  y^  assistance  of  the  secretary.                                                  | 

10.  Eec*^  a  letter  from  the  President  about  him,  and  sent  an 
answer,  and  at  the  same  time  sent  my  letter  to  him,  w^^  I  began 
at  Col.  Lewis's,  w^^  I  had  delay'd  on  acco*  of  the  embassy.  The 
Presid*  by  himself  gave  them  their  audience  of  farewell,  for  he 
never  spoke  with  them  in  council.  Had  Le^  fr.  Jackson.  This 
even^  rec*^  a  lett^  from  the  Xelsons,  w*^  a  representat""  to  his 
Majy  aV  Jackson. 

11.  Writt  a  letter  to  Col.  Gr^-mes,  Col.  Corbin  and  Col.  Lud- 
well, and  sent  express  with  it,  for  their  hands  to  the  representa- 
tion. . 

13.  Eec**  it  back  w*^  Col.  Grymes  and  Col.  Ludwell's  hands 
to  it,  but  not  Col.  Corbin's,  and  sent  it  w'^  fair  copy  of  report  to 
y«  Xelson^  to  send  away.  Sent  also  y^  Presid^^  letter  of  y^  10th, 
with  my  answer  and  my  letter  to  Gr^  Cor.  >  and  Lud.,  and  copy  to 
Col.  Eandolph  to  be  return'd,  and  gave  some  information ;  then 
writ  to  y*  Presid'^  ^  Dan^  Carrel.  Had  an  answer  from  the  sec^ 
retary.     Order'd  powder  and  ball  to  the  Indians. 

14.  The  Indians  march'd  in  good  order  with  beat  of  drum 


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through  the  town,  and  made  an  handsome  appearance  in  their 
now  cloths.  Eec^  the  Presid^^  letter  in  the  afternoon,  ^p  Dan* 
('arrel,  and  presently  gave  the  proclam''  to  ^Ir.  Hunter  to  be 
nrinttcl,  and  gave  order  for  the  arms  to  be  deliv"^  accjuaint^  Col. 
Patton. 

15.  The  Xottoways  came,  and  had  a  friendly  interview  w^^ 
the  Cherokees,  in  the  mark*  place,  and  a  conference  in  y*  court 
house  w^^  renew*^  friendship.  Of  this  I  writ  to  the  Preside  ad- 
vising a  present  to  y®  Xottow^  as  also  of  the  guns  to  the  Chero- 
kees. 

16.  Had  the  Presid^^  answer,  and  shcw*^  it  y^  comiss''.  The 
Cherokees  took  their  leave  of  me  here,  much  delighted  with  y* 
musick  of  Spinnet. 

17.  Col.  Patton  desires  his  commission  and  instructions  may 
be  sent  up  after  him.    The  Ind°^,  and  he  set  off  now. 

19.  Gave  David  Geddy  a  letf  of  cred^  for  £10,  on  w°^  he  had 
of  Mr.  Ambler,  £6,  0,  5. 

23.  Shew^  Col.  L.  Burwell  Jackson^  lett^,  and  my  answ"". 
raised  the  house  for  Peter  Hendriken. 

27.  Shew*^  d°  and  my  report  to  C.  C^  Burwell,  who  shew*^  me 
his  modest  letter  to  y^  Presid*  in  Jackson's  favour,  w^  did  not 
ask  amthing.    I  made  a  proposal  to  him. 

29.  Capt.  Whitwell  is  excused  going  to  Xova  Scotia,  he  and 
Esq^  Jenings  dined  w^^  the  council,  also  Mr.  Eandolph.  Mr. 
Presid*  dined  at  Mr.  Attorneys,  not  very  well.  Settled  a  new 
modell  of  y*  seats  for  y®  Burgesses. 

30.  Mr.  Jno.  Watson  dined  here,  and  gave  me  a  long  acco*  of 
his  many  voiages  among  the  islands  in  quest  of  the  Spanish 
money  pirated  by  Loyd,  &e.,  from  Carolina,  which  required  his 
going  off  for  London  very  soon.  Considering  how  diligent  he 
had  been 'here  about  Jackson,  I  gave  Mm  copys  of  my  report, 
his  sentence,  and  my  reasons  for  executing  it,  that  he  might  y® 
better  speak  to  it  at  London.  He  surprised  me  with  a  report  he 
niet  with  in  Xancemond,  that  the  evidence  was  not  so  clear  at 
last  ag*  Jackson,  and  that  I  was  the  only  man  of  y^  council  that 
advised  the  President  to  reprieve  him.  0 !  .Strange.  I  should 
rather  think  his  friends  had  given  it  out  that  I  was  the  only  man 
of  them  that  opposed  the  reprieve  him :  both  very  false. 

31. 1  gave  him  a  copy  of  my  letter  to  Jackson,  which,  having 
ii^^ard,  he  desired  to  have. 


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12  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

September. 

7.  Comimicat^  Jackson's  affair  to  Col.  Cary. 

9.  And  in  part  to  Col.  Hunter. 

11.  Mrs.  Curie  went  home  in  our  coach;    at  hand^  her  in  I  j 

spoke  of  pay^  pasturage  when  I  knew  what  it  came  to;   but  she  > 

replyed  she  desired  no  pay.    While  at  Hampton  got  letters  from  ; 

Hanbury,  a  trunk  of.  goods,    ^   the  Beckie  Capt.  Buchanan,  j 

also  a  Guinea  man  arriv*^  to  Col.  Randolph.    Treated  w^^  Proby,  j 

Allen,  &c.,  to  get  the  wine,  &c.,  from  Potomack.  j 

14.  Found  the  capitol  as  1  left  it  the  3d,  and  as  it  had  been  j 

for  some  time  before,  not  at  all  advanced.  j 

16  and  18.  The  gr*^  door  cases  put  up.  j 

19.  Had  a  let^  from  Col.  Patton  ab^  y«  Indians.  ' 

20.  The  gr*  gate  the  Burgesses  went  in  at  stopt,  and  be-  | 
gun  to  be  brick'd  up.  The  foundation  frame  of  the  cupulo  fitted  • 
into  its  place  in  framing.  | 

21.  Spoke  w^^  Mr.  Power  in  fav^  of  Col.  Custis. 
24.  Lays  bricks  for  the  grand  steps ;   but  fear. 

26.  Steps  bro*^  in  place,  but  no  fasten^  prepar^. 

27.  Mr.  Taliaf°  here;   view^  Wheatly's  sash  work. 

28.  Made  inv°,  and  rec'^  of  W.  P.  y^  1st  £50.  Seth  WatMns 
inform'd  me  he  had  bought  a  large  canoe  for  me  in  Gloucester, 
and  had  her  at  his  home  at  the  Glebe,  but  that  the  26  s.  I  had 
sent  by  him  was  not  sufficient,  and  that  he  Lad  added  4  s.  more. 
I  bid  him  use  her  some  time  as  his  own,  to  make  him  amends  for 
his  trouble.  The  first  stone  of  the  grand  stairs  of  the  portico 
was  set  to-day,  on  w^^  I  stood  when  but  2  more  were  laid,  w^^  out 
cramps. 

30.  Gave  my  watch  to  Mr.  Davenport,  then  going,  and  had 
done  well  til  yesterday. 

October. 

1.  Speedy  justice  in  J.  C.  court,  a  felony  comit*^  last  n^.  the 
felon  tried,  sentenced  and  execuf^  this  afternoon. 

3.  Advis*^  Mr.  Hunter  to  delay  publ=  an  acco^  of  the  Chero- 
kees  from  S*'  Carol*  till  y^  Preside,  &c.,  saw  it. 

7.  Col.  Fairfax  expect^  to  meet  ^Ir.  Dinwiddle  here  as  Gov^ 
and  seem*^  surpris*^  when  I  told  liim  the  Presid^  did  not  intend  to 
be  here  y^  court. 

8.  Mr.  Xicho'  tells  me  the  Presid'^  will  be  here. 


William  and  :Mary  College  Quarteuly.  13 

10.  Mr.  Presic?  swore  the  court,  nine  being  present,  then  two 
(,L  v^  nine  swore  the  President,  who  retir^.  Then  in  an  hour 
aft''  13,  6  went  upon  the  cause  of  Brewer  &  Smith  (3  with- 
dra\v«),  but  left  it  at  4  unfinished  till  to-morrow. 

12.  Tab's  case  seem'd  hard  to  me,  as  also  the  case  of  Mr. 
Parish,  who  was  adjudg^  to  restore  slaves  w*^  their  increase,  for 
which  he  had  paid  the  devisses  (of  4  out  of  6  at  least),  as  they 
oanie  of  age,  and  had  their  discharges,  and  it  was  impossible  to 
divide  them  among  6,  as  there  were  but  2  or  3  slaves  devised  to 
them,  but  by  reducing  them  to  their  value,  and  their  share  of 
that  value  had  been  p^  to  some  of  'em  15  and  16  y''  agoe. 

14.  Court  sat  all  day  (till  near  5)  on  King's  Cause.  This 
even^  Mr.  Prentis  rec'^  a  lett^  from  S'"  Wm.  Gooch  dat<^  July  IG, 
w^^  says  Mr.  Dinwiddle  is  appoint"^  our  Gov'",  and  intended  to  be 
here  by  y^  last  of  Oct%  or  bcg»  of  ISTov'". 

15.  Gov^  Ogle,  Mr.  Sec^  Jennings  and  Mr.  Tasker  dined  here 
w^^  the  council,  and  after  dinner  waif^  on  the  President  at  the 
Gov"  house,  where  in  presence  of  the  council  his  Excel^  took  the 
oaths  before  the  Presid*.  and  gave  bond  w^^  2  surety.  Mr.  Plater 
and  sev^  oth'  gent^  dined  w*-^  them. 

16.  Mr.  Carlisle  and  Mr.  Fairf^  here. 

19.  Mr.  Nelson  returned  to  court  after  a  feaver  on  the  even^ 
of  the  first  day,  w^^  occasioned  him  to  be  absent  7  days  of  y- 
court. 

21.  A  magistr*  discharge^  a  runaway  who  show"^  his  coin^ 
tools  and  contract  w*^  his  master  for  that  business ;  as  all  justice 
he  thought  was  then  stopt. 
/       22.  Carried  down  Walker's  ex'^  bond,  but  Mr.  xs'elson  (and  3 
more)  was  not  at  dinner  and  Skelton  not  come  to  town. 

24.  Gov^  Glen's  letf  to  the  Presid'^  ab*  our  late  treaty  w^^  the 
Cherokees,  higjily  blam^  it,  was  read  in  council  to-day. 

25.  A.  made  his  will  in  1732,  and  left  his  lands  and  all  his 
person^  est*®  within  and  w*^  out  to  his  two  nat.  daught^^  wi*^  out 
particularly  mention^  his  10  negroes,  and  in  case  of  their  deaths 
'»vith"  issue,  to  his  heir  at  law.  His  bro""  (who  was  not  calrd  to 
contest)  15  y^  after  sued  and  recov*^  the  negroes  contrary  to  y® 
plain  mean^  of  the  will,  I  think. 

26.  An  answer  to  Gov^  Glen  drawn  by  a  comity,  was  approv'^ 
of  in  council  this  day.  Our  ord^  for  100,000  acres  and  ^^Ir.  Cal- 
iiiies  for  60,000,  wore  renew^  this  day,  in  preference  to  the  Ohio 
grant,  as  prior  in  date. 


14  William  axd  ;Mary  College  Qcarterly. 

29.  Black,  &c.,  ag'  Mr.  Jam=  Blair  and  nie,  went  oil  without 
contest,  as  the  depositions  of  the  party  before  my  P  may"",  were 
adjudge  insuiTicient  evidence  w^^  out  oth''  proof  (w'^^  they  might 
have  had)  in  the  case  of  Bradly  &  Grif!''  ag*^  Harrison's  exec", 
argiied  the  day  before. 

30.  The  Presid*  kept  the  birthday  in  an  extra^  manner  by 
adding  to  his  elegant  entertainment  for  the  ladies  and  gent°  a 
puree  of  50  pistoles  to  be  distributed  amongst  the  poor  by  ^li. 

Dawson. 

November. 

1.  The  council  desired  me  to  contract  for  the  rent  of  a  house 
/  for  the  Govern^  on  the  terms  spoken  to  in  council,  w<^^  amounted 

^  to  £70  ^  ann^,  w^^  leave  to  hire  Col.  Ludwell's  house  for  half  a 
year  at  a  venture,  £40.  This  even-  I  assigned  to  Skelton  at  Mr. 
Wallers  the  bond  of  Walker's  ex^^  to  repay  the  £500  advanced  to 
him  towards  his  rebuild^  y^  capitol. 

2.  I  gave  Mr.  Johnston  Xeiland's  bond  for  £16,  due  near  8 
years,  w^^  he  said  he  could  recover  for  me  tho.  by  mistake  he  is 
called  Xinian.  James  Blair  is,  I  hear,  arrested  for  £200.  In 
w*^^  I  cannot  assist  him. 

5.  Col°.  Custis's  decree  in  his  favor  obtain"^  this  court,  is  now 
reversed  in  fav^  of  Stanup,  upon  a  nil  dicit.  One  Poythres,  of 
Pri.  Geo.,  is  admitted  to  bring  ejectm*^  ag*  Col.  Bland,  and  5 
more,  in  forma  pauperis.  Mr.  Jolmson  has  9  months  given  him 
to  consider  if  he  will  prosecute  his  appeals  ag^  Judy  Bray  Ingles, 
and  ag'  Col.  Bray's  exec"  for  the  2  moitys  of  Xances  Xeck  and 
Tutty's  Xeck,  but  this  by  consent  of  party s. 

6.  Mr.  Johnson's  bill  in  equity  against  Bray's  exec"  was 
rec*^  by  the  court. 

7.  Writ  to  the  Presid*^  w^^  the  accounts. 

8.  Writ  to  him  w^^  Col.  Patton's  letters. 
9..  Had  a  line  ordering  pay  to  y^  express. 
11.  IMr.  Wyth  spent  the  even^  here. 

14.  Planey  began  to  underpin  the  house. 

16.  Mat  Harfield  p*^  me  16  |  ,  and  prom^  more  before  Xmas, 
and  to  settle  then. 

Mr.  Eang  sent  his  q^  rent  money  for  w^^  I  made  a  ree*  vester- 
day,  £23,  1,  7. 

Doct^  Gilmer  gave  me  a  rec*  for  £30,  for  Symmer  to  be  p*^  in 
bills  as  desired,  for  w=^  I  agreed  to  take  his  bills  for  £25,  and 


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Willia:^!  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  15 

to  keep  till  May  next;  he  promises  in  liis  letf  to  Dr.  Gilmer  to 
send  them  soon. 

This  evening  Mr.  Pr[est]on  to  prevent  the  3'oung  gentlemen 
at  y^  college  from  playing  at  a  rehearsal  in  y«  dormit^  how  they 
could  act  Cato  privately  among  themselves,  did  himself,  they 
say,,  act  the  Drun[ke]n  Peasant;  but  his  tearing  down  the  cur- 
tains is  to  me  very  surprising. 

19.  We  had  a  report  of  the  Duke's  death,  as  from  Carolina ; 
but  very  uncertain. 

20.  This  day  ab^  noon  we  had  y®  news  of  Gov""  Dinwiddle's 
safe  arrival  at  York  w^^  his  lady  and  2  daughters,  and  in  the 
evening  I  writ  to  Mrs.  Xelson  ^  his  express. 

21.  Mr.  Comiss^,  Col.  Ludwell  and  myself  went  out  to  meet 
the  Governor,  and  with  Col.  Fairfax,  Mr.  kelson  and  the  secre- 
tary (who  came  up  with  him  from  York),  attended  him  to  his 
house.  At  the  entrance  of  the  town  he  was  complimented  by  the 
mayor  and  aldermen,  who  (w*^^  the  gent°)  were  got  together  to 
welcome  him,  and  invited  him  and  the  council  to  a  dinner  they 
had  prepared  at  VTetherburn's,  where  we  all  dined.  At  the  Gov^^ 
house  he  produced  his  commission  w'^  a  handsome  speech,  de- 
claring his  purpose  of  studdying  the  welfare  of  the  country,  rely- 
ing on  the  assistance  of  the  council,  as  his  ]\[ajesty  had  vouch- 
safed to  appoint  him  to  this  care.  Col.  Fairfax,  Mr.  Xelson  and 
myself  administered  the  oaths  to  the  Gov'",  after  w*^^  pursuant  to 
his  instruction,  the  council  present  took  the  oaths  anew,  and 
Mr.  Walthoe  the  oath  of  office.  A  proclamation  to  continue  ail 
officers  was  ordered;  but  the  consideration  of  the  assembly  was 
refer'd  to  a  fuller  board  at  the  Oyer  and  Ter.  McKenzie's  house 
was  ord^  to  be  bought.  All  other  business  was  I  thought  to  be 
postponed;  but  Mr.  Commissary  moved  the  Gov^  for  his  letter 
of  recomend^  of  Mr.  Jones  to  Soiithwark  Parish,  w^^  the  Gov^ 
was  ready  to  give  in  to.  But  as  I  had  in  my  pocket  a  letter  to 
the  Gov"^  from  Mr.  Menzies  for  that  parish  I  thought  myself 
obliged  to  deliver  the  letter  imediately,  lest  it  might  be  quite  too 
late. 

22.  The  Gov'"  went  back  to  York  yesterday,  and  return'^  this 
evening  w^^  his  lady  and  daughters  to  -f  attorney's. 

23.  [Mrs.  Blair  and  I  dined  w*^  them  there  by  invita°  and 
many  ladies  and  gent''  visited  them  in  the  afternoon,  and  were 
highly  pleas^  w^^  them.     Last  night  I  had  a  letter  from  Col. 


16  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  ) 

t 

Cary  at  York  informing  me  of  the  small-pox  at  Hampton,  and  { 

Mrs.  Gary's  resolution  not  to  remove.  j 

25.  The  Gov^,  his  lady  and  Miss  Dinwiddie,  Mr.  Attorney  and  | 

his  lady,  the  GonnciK  and  his  lady  dined  and  supped  with  us 

this   a  day.    Writt  to  Gol.  Cary  by  Mr.  Pelham. 

•     2G.  Sent  the  coach  to  Moody's  for  Col.  Lewis,  Mr.  Page,  Mr. 

Willis  and  Mr.  Carter,  to  wait  on  y^  Gov''.    I  hear  now  that  Mrs.  | 

Symmer  died  last  H  the  21st,  y^  day  y^  Gov""  swore  in.     This 

even^  I  saw  the  gr*^  steps  at  the  capitol  all  up  in  their  places. 

27.  The  Gov'",  &c.,  din*^  at  Dr.  Gilmers  his  birth  day. 

28.  The  wid''  Watkins  came  to  me  about  the  canoe,  and  sus- 
pected Br}-an. 

29.  Dick  told  me  that  Bryan's  overseer  eaid  she  sold  it  to  an 
East"^  Sho''^  man.    The  20th  Mr.  Bryan  was  with  me  ab^  it. 

30.  I  went  to  y®  land^  to  enquire. 

December. 

1.  Jupiter  found  her  at  Hulets. 

7.  Anderson's  pasture  for  sale  Dec.  y^  10th. 

12.  Col.  Patton  proposes  fine  land  on  the  waters  of  Potomack,. 
Delaware  and  Susquehanna,  as  in  Virginia,  if  the  western 
boundary  of  Marjdand  and  Pennsylvania  were  run  out  and 
settled.  This  afternoon  I  laid  the  last  top  brick  on  the  capitol 
wall,  and  so  it  is  now  ready  to  receive  the  roof,  and  some  of  the 
w^ll  plates  were  rais*^  and  laid  on  this  day.  I  had  laid  a  founda- 
tion brick  at  the  first  build^  of  the  capitol  above  50  year  ago, 
and  another  foundation  brick  in  April  last,  the  first  in  mortar 
towards  the  rebuilding,  and  now  the  last  as  above. 

15.  My  sister  deliv*^  of  a  daughter,  who  died  presently. 

17.  A  considerable  snow  and  23  snowed  all  day. 

IS.  Mr.  King  took  his  leave  of  us.  Doct^  McKenzie  brought 
a  deed  prepared  for  his  wife  to  join  in.^  The  Gov^  called  here  as 
a  friend.  This  even^  Lewis  was  thought  to  have  the  throat  dis- 
temper. 

^Dr.  Kenneth  ZVIcKenzie  married  Joanna  Tyler,  great  aunt  of  Presi- 
dent John  Tyler.  His  will  was  proved  March, 17,  IToo,  and  her  will  on 
January  19,  1707.  They  had  issue:  1.  Anne,  born  April  10,  1737;  2. 
(Dr.)  William  McKenzie,  born  April  10.  1746;  3.  Mary,  born  April  14. 
1748.  Dr.  Kenneth  McKenzie  required  that  '"his  son  should  be  kept  at 
the  College  till  he  is  qualified  for  being  put  to  some  genteel  business''; 
he  left  his  "skeleton  and  infected  child''  to  Dr.  James  Carter,  and  ap- 


William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  17 

19.  Mrs.  Waller  here  to  see  him.  Assured  Mr.  Boll  of  Mc- 
Kenzie's  money  in  a  little  time  after  compleating  the  convey- 
ance w'=^  Mr.  Waller  has  corrected. 

20.  Geo.  Kerr  and  Hen.  Stanworth  were  hanged;  each  for 
murder.  Peter  Camp  was  found  dead,  and  one  or  two  more,  I 
hear. 

22.  Xegro  Peter  kilP,  I  hear. 

26.  I  told  the  Gov^  of  Maj''  Wash"^  death.^  Mr.  Walpole  had 
given  my  computa''  to  the  Gov%  Mr.  Dinwiddle,  to  examine  (as 
he  now  tells  me),  and  that  he  found  them  right. 

27.  Col.  Ludwell  and  his  lady,  &c.,  came  to  town,  and  dined 
w^^  ye  Gov^ 

29.  Doct^  Gilmer  promised  the  Gov'"  the  perusal  of  Dr.  Walk- 
er's journal  of  his  travels  beyond  y^  mount^^^ 

31.  I  invited  the  Gov""  and  his  family  to  begin  the  year  with 
us  to-morrow. 

pointed  Mr.  Thomas  Everard,  Doctor  James  Carter,  Doctor  George  Eid- 
dell,  and  his  cousin,  Dr.  Kenneth  McKenzie,  executors.  His  inventory 
was  valued  at  £438  13.  7,  and  included  an  interesting  list  of  books.  Mr. 
R.  A.  Brock  says  he  has  frequently  met  with  Dr.  McKenzie's  books,  con- 
taining his  book-plate,  representing  the  family  of  McKenzie  of  County 
Cromarty,  Ireland.  His  son,  Dr.  William  McKenzie,  appears  to  have 
studied  with  Dr.  David  Black,  of  Blandford,  near  Petersburg,  who  mar- 
ried his  sister,  Ann  McKenzie.  He  had  Joanna  McKenzie,  who  was 
war^  of  Judge  John  Tyler.  She  married  Judge  James  Semple  (his 
second  wife.)  In  1808,  the  General  Assembly  vested  in  James  Semple 
and  Joanna,  his  wife,  lots  in  Blandford,  whereof  David  Black,  son  of 
Dr.  David  Black,  died  seised — "said  Joanna  being  nearest  of  kin  to  Da\id 
Black,  the  younger,  in  the  United  States  at  the  time  of  his  death." 
Judge  Semple  had  by  this  marriage  Major  Henry  Churchill  Semple,  Dr. 
George  W.  Semple,  and  others.  The  deed  referred  to  in  the  text  is  on 
record  at  Yorktown,  and  conveys  for  the  Governor's  use  lots  333,  334. 
335,  336,  on  the  Palace  Green,  being  the  lots  occupied  by  what  is  kno^vu 
a?  the  ^Saunders  House.  This  effectually  disposes  of  Dr.  E.  D.  Xeili's 
rather  belittling  reference  to  the  Palace,  quoting  Dinwiddle,  who  was 
only  speaking  of  Dr.  McKenzie's  house.  Quarterly,  II.,  193;  Yll.,  145, 
note  2. 

^  The  reference  here  is  to  Major  Lawrence  Washington,  half-brother 
of  General  George  Washington.  , 

-  This  journal  has  been  printed.  Dr.  Thomas  Walker  was  brother- 
in-law  of  Dr.  George  Gilmer,  who  married  his  sister  Susan  (his  second 
""^'ife.)  He  was  distinguished  as  a  patriot  and  explorer,  and  was  the 
common  ancestor  of  Thomas  Walker  Gilmer,  Secretary  of  the  Xavy, 
of  William  C.  Kives,  Senator  of  the  United  States,  Hon.  R.  T.  W.  Duke, 
^r.  C,  Matthew  F.  Maury,  the  scientist,  etc. 


18  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 


LIBEARIES  IN  COLON-IAL  VIRGINIA. 

See  Vol.  II.,  1G9,  247;    III.,  43,  132,  180,  240;    IV.,  15,  94,  15G,  2G9;   V., 
61;    VI.,  6,  40,  158. 

Library  of  Col.  John  Carter/  of  Lancaster  County. 

f 

[Taken  from  his  inventory  in  1600.]  j 

Books:    Plutarch's  Lives,  Blunt's  English  Dictionary,  Dio-  j 

dati's  Annotations  on  the  Bible,  Byfield  on  St.  Peier,  Bacon's  ! 

Natural  History,  Markham  on  the  Country  ffarmer,  Howell's  | 

French  and  English  Dictionary,  The  Countesse  of  Montgomery's  | 

Yrania,  The  Booke  of  Comon  Prayer,  An  English  Greek  Lexicon,  j 

Culpeper's  Dispensatory,  Baxters  Sts.  Everlasting  Pcst,Joachym  j 

Scughim   (?)   of  Architecture,  Bridges'  Arithmetick,  Homer's 

Iliad,  Eikon  Basilike,  Ovid's  Epistles  in  English  Verse,  Basilikon 

Doron,  Wm.  Pen,  No  Cross  Noe  Crowne,  Dodona's  Grove,  Eush- 

Y/orth's  Collection,  2d  Vol.,  2d  Part.,  Ambrose  Parrrs  Chirur- 

gery.  An  Old  English  Bible,  A  Way  to  Git  Wealth,  Yirgor's  Chi-  I 

rurgery,  A  Spanish  and  English  Dictionary,  Pa\Tie  of  the  Holy  ' 

Scriptures,  Wyrtrung's  (  ?)  Practice  of  Physick,  Brownrig's  Ser-  ■ 

mons,  Assembly's  Annotaeons,  2  Vol.,  Cleopatra,  a  Romance;  j 

Of  the  Birth  of  Mankinde,  Poole's  Greek  Testament,  Barritt  of  j 

Military  Discipline,  The  Key  of  the  Bible,  Clavis  Grsecse  Lin-  i 

guae,  Jo:  Durant  Lips  of  Sweetness,  Sennertus  of  the  Scurvey,  \ 

Dropsy,  &c.,  Sennertus  Institutions,  Baxter  of  Peace  of  Con-  | 
. j 

^  This  Colonel  John  Carter  was  brother  of  Robert  Carter,  Esq.,  whose  * 

library  is  given  in  the  Virginia  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography.  \ 

An  abstract  of  John  Carter's  will  is  given  in  Virginia  Magazine  of  His-  | 

tory  and  Biography,  Vol.  II.,  p.  23G.  He  married  at  least  twice:  I.  dau. 
of  Colonel  William  Loyd,  of  lUchmond  county,  and  Elizabeth,  his  wife, 
by  whom  he  had  Elizabeth,  who  married  John  Lloyd,  of  the  same 
county.     In  1703  "John  Lloyd,  Esq.,  was  ex'or.  of  Col.  William  Lloyd.'' 


I 

f 

(Richmond  County  records.)      In  1G99,  as  "John  Lloyd,  of  the  City  of  .  | 

Chester,  kingdom  of  England,  Esquire,"  he  appointed  William  Colston  ^  ■ 

and  David  Gwyn  to  manage  his  estate  in  Virginia — "iiis  dear  brother,  ^ 

Thomas  Lloyd,  having  lately  died  there."     (Essex  County  records.)     In  k 

1713  George  Lloyd,  of  Essex  county,  Va.,  made  his  %vill,  naming  wife  t 

Joanna,   children   Samuel,   Anne,   Elizabeth,   Martha,   sons-in-law   John  I 

Diskin  and  Daniel  Diskin,  dau.-in-law  Mary  Diskin,  and  Salvator  Mus-  | 

co€,  James  Alderson,  and  Robert  Beverley,     uolonel  Carter  appears  to  \ 

liave  marrried,  II.,  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Raleigh  Travers,  and  she  mar-  | 

ried,  secondly.  Colonel  Christopher  Wormely.  I 


William  axd  Mary  College  Quarterly.  19 

science,   Kushworth's   Collections,   Part   1st,   The   Practice   of 
Piety,  Crookc's  Anatomy,  Baxter's  Christian  Dictionary. 

Delivered  to  mad.  Eliz.  Wormly  as  part  of  her  legacy: 
[Among  other  things]  Josephus^  History  of  the  Jews,  Xewman's 
Concordance,  Salmon's  Dispensatory,  Cassander,  a  Komance, 
Ogilby's  Virgil  in  English,  Baxter  of  the  Life  of  ffaith,  Phillip's 
English  Dictionary,  Sennertus  Chirurger}^,  God's  iLCVcnge  A.gt 
Murder,  The  Almost  Christian,  by  M.  Mead,  Spencer's  Logick, 
The  Kerlicks  of  ^Elian,  Blith's  English  Husbandry,  Baxter  of 
Infidelity,  Ball  of  Sepeperection  ( ?),  Markham's  Masterpiece, 
Spanish  and  French  Dialogues,  The  Poore  Man's  Family  Booke, 
Rushworth's  Collections,  P*^  2d,  Vol.  I.,  Kiverius'  Practice  of 
Physick. 

Library  of  Col.  Daniel  McCarty^  op  Westmoreland 
County^  Esquire. 

ITahen  from  his  inventory  made  June  15,  ITSJf.'] 

Cato,  a  Play,  Is. ;  Prosodia  in  Verse,  6d. ;  Willymott's  Ex- 
ercise, 2s.;  Trojs  Destruction,  Is.;  Croley's  Works,  3  Vols., 
9s.;  Father's  Legacy,  2s.  6d.;  Kelin's  Eep^%  9s.  6d. ;  Allen's 
Eep*%  9s.;  3  casters  and  6  tea  spoons,  silver,  11£.  13s.  3d. 

In  the  Hall  Closett  Boohs  (vizt.) 
2  Lattin  Bibles,  10s.;    6  Garrettson's  Exercise,  Is.;    Greek 
Grammar,  Is.    6d. ;    Parisms    and    Parismenas,  Is.;    Quarles' 
Emblems,  3s.  6d. ;    Jacob's  Justices,  6s. ;    Compleat  Guide  to 
Justices,  4s.  6d.;   State  Tryals  Abridged,  6  Vol.,  1£.  17s.  6d. 

In  the  Hall  Closett,  Boohs,  vizt. 
One  Bible,  12s.  12d.;  one  Small  Book,  nevr,  5s.  5d. ;  Statutes 
at  Larg,  folo',  3£. ;  a  large  Concordance  to  the  Bible,  folo,  1£. 
10s. ;  Cook's  Eeports,  folo,  1£.  53. ;  2  Littleton's  Dictionarv-s,  4^ 
1£.  10s.;  Statutes  Gulil.  and  Mar.,  and  Gulil,  fol.,  5s.;  Brown- 
low's  Jud.  Writts,  4°,  5s. ;  Acco^  of  Eeform^  ]\[anners,  S^  3s. ; 
Sr.  Robert  Howard's  Plays,  old  foP,  5s.;  ^Moor's  Fortifications, 
'">%  3s. ;  Eights  of  the  Comons  of  England,  S'',  4s. ;  March's  Re- 
ports, 10s. ;  English  Gardner,  5s. ;  Hughs'  Abridgm^  3  vol°,  4% 
1£.  10s.;  Bp.  Andrews's  !Moral  Law,  folo.,  10s.:  S^vinbu^n 
^Vilb,  4°,  10s.;    Hughs'  Abridgm^  4%  10s.;    Hebberd's  Rep^% 


20  William  and  Mary  College  Quaeterly. 


fol.,  1£.;  Vauglian's  Kei/%  fol.,  1£.;  Polloxfen's  do.,  foL,  1£.;  | 
Bohun's  do.,  foL,  1£.;  Dalton's  Justice,  fol.,  15s.;  Treatise  of  | 
Fines,  12°,  3s.;  Terms  of  the  Law,  8°,  7s.;  Fitzherbert  Nat.  t 
Bre,  8^,  53. ;  Jure  Maritimo,  8'\  5s. ;  Washington's  Abridging  8%  ; 
OS.;  Wilkinson's  Coroner  and  Sheriff,  8'',  os. ;  ^lanton  on  the  j 
Lord's  Prayer,  8°,  5s. ;  Abridgm^^  of  Cook's  Ptep^  old  12^  3s. ; 
Ninivitae  Gram.  Institution,  12°,  Is.;  Brown's  Introduction  to 
Entries,  old  S°,  5s. ;  Office  of  Ex",  4°,  7s. ;  2  Cezar  s  Comment, 
12°,  7s.;  Practick  Part  of  the  Law,  8°,  3s.;  2  Juvenals,  12°,  63.; 
1  Common  Prayer  Book,  large  8°,  silver  clasps,  lOs.;  Poole's 
Annotations,  2  vol.  fol°,  3£.;  Supplem*  at  Statutes  at  Large, 
foI°,  1£.  5s. ;  Doct''  Barrow's  Works,  1st  vol.,  f ol°,  1£. ;  Eider's 
do.,  old  4°,  7s.;  Blunt's  Law  Dictionary,  old,  fol°,  10s.;  Pro- 
ceedings, Ecclesiastical,  4°,  os.;  Brownlow's  Diet.,  4°,  05.; 
Erasmus,  8°,  Is.  3d.;  Descriptions  of  Guinea,  8°,  5s.;  Ferran's 
Lat.,  old  8°,  Is.  3d.;  Bond's  Justice,  8°,  5s.;  Eogers'  Voyages, 
8°,  5s. ;  Cole's  Latin  Dictionary,  5s. ;  Act  of  Tonage  and  Pound- 
age, old  12°,  2s.  6d. ;  Symboliography,  4°,  43.;  Godolphin's  Or- 
phan's Legacy,  4°,  15s. ;  Gould's  Boroughs,  4°,  10s. ;  Brown- 
loVs  Diet.,  second  part,  4°,  5s.;  Sheppard's  Abridging  4°^ 
10s.;  Keple's  Eep",  3  vol.,  fol.,  3£.;  Yentris  do.,  fol.,  1£.; 
Cook  upon  Littleton,  2  vol.,  fol.,  2£.  3s. ;  Pearson  on  the  Creed, 
fol.,  1£. ;  Layman's  Law}Tr,  12°,  2s.;  Penitent  Instructed,  12°, 
3s. ;  Book  of  Bates,  8°,  7s. ;  Wingate's  Abridgm^  8°,  5s. ;  Prelate's 
Tyranny,  old,  4°,  2s.  6d. ;  Clerk's  Tutor,  8°,  5s.;  Journal  of 
House  of  Com%  8°,  Ss.;  Hale's  Pleas  of  the  Crown,  12°,  3s.; 
Exact  Lawyer,  12°,  2s.;  Townsend's  Preparation  to  Pleadings 
12°,  3s.;  Bezars  Lat.  Testament,  8°,  2s.  6d.;  Sheperd's  Subject^ 
to  Christ,  8°,  5s. ;  Bohun's  Jus.  Legale,  8°,  5s. ;  Ovidii  Opera,  2 
vol.,  12°,  7s.;  2  Terrance,  12°,  7s.;  2  Horaces,  12°,  7s.;  2 
Phaedons,  12°,  6s.;  one  Yirgil,  12°,  4s.;  2  Ovid  Epist.,  12°,  4s.,; 
1  Ovid  Tristibus,  12°,  Is.  6d. ;  Eules  for  Pleading,  12°,  3s. ;  ' 
Wellwood's  Abridgm*  Sea  Laws,  12°,  old,  Is.  6d.;  one  Psalter, 
12°,  Is.  6d. ;  Sydenham's  Physician,  8°,  5s.;  1  small  common 
prayer  book,  old.  Is.  6d. ;  2  Com.  iSTepos.,  12°,  6s. ;  one  Sallust, 
12°,  3s. ;  6  Historical  Acco^  of  Governm^  4°,  5s. ;  Stone  on  the 
Statute  of  Bankrupt,  12°,  old.  Is.  6d. ;  6  Bachard's  Gazetter, 
12°,  3s.;  6  London  Dispensatory,  8°,  5s.:  Boyle's  Eeceipts,  12°,. 
3s.;   6  Statutes  5°,  Jacobi,  2^  old  fol°,  10s. 


William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  21 

Notes  Upon  the  Above  Libraries.^ 

Plutarch.    Probably  Sir  Thomas  North's  translation,  folio,  1G57. 

Blunt.  Probably  Thomas  Blount's  Glossographia,  8vo,  1050.  He  was 
a  Roman  Catholic,  and  author  of  "Boscobel." 

Diodati.  Translation  from  the  Italian  of  John  Diodati,  a  divine  of 
the  reformed  church,  folio,  1051, 

Bt/field.  Folio,  1037.  Said  by  Bickersteth  to  be  "an  excellent  puri- 
tan exposition."  Author  was  Nicholas  Eyfield,  an  eminent  Puritan 
divine,  who  died  in  1052.  Nathaniel  Byfield,  b.  1053,  d.  1733,  Mem. 
Coun.,  Mass.,  who  published  an  account  of  the  Revolution  in  New  Eng- 
land in  1089,  was  probably  of  the  same  family. 

Bacon.  Probably  the  edition  of  1048,  or  that  of  1002,  of  Sir  Francis 
Bacon's  Nat.  Hist. 

Markham.  Author  was  Gervase  Markham,  a  captain  under  Charles 
I.  in  the  civil  wars,  a  prolific  writer  on  husbandry,  horsemanship  and 
sporting. 

Howell.  James  Howell,  Clerk  of  Council  under  Charles  L,  imprisoned 
by  Cromwell,  but  after  restoration  of  Charles  II.  vras  made  •'"'Historio- 
grapher Royal."  He  was  author  of  "Dodona's  Grove,"  and  boasted  that 
he  could  "pray  every  day  of  the  week  in  a  separate  language,  and  upon 
Sunday  in  seven." 

Urania.  Probably  a  translation,  by  the  widow  of  the  executed  Hugue- 
not general,  of  Chouet's  Urania. 

Culpepper.  Folio,  1052,  by  Nicholas  Culpepper,  "student  in  physic 
and  astrology." 

Baxter.  Probably  the  edition  of  1050,  by  the  celebrated  non-conform- 
ist divine  Richard  Baxter. 

Bridges.    Noah  Bridges'  Vulgar  Arithmetic,  12mo,  1053. 

Homer.  Probably  the  folio  of  George  Chapman,  the  first  translation 
into  English,  or  it  may  have  been  John  Ogilby's  translation,  folio,  1060. 

Eikon  Basilike.  First  published  in  1648.  Attributed  to  Charles  L, 
but  stated  by  Earl  of  Anglesey,  on  authority  of  Charles  TI.  and  Duke  of 
York,  to  have  been  written  by  John  Gauden,  Bishop  of  Chester. 

Ovid.    Probably  Francis  Quarles'  translation,  8vo,  1073. 

Basilikon  Doron.     By  King  James.  I. 

William  Penn.    Founder  of  Pennsylvania,  first  published  cir.  1669. 

Dodona's  Grove.    By  James  Howell,  the  Royalist,  pub.  cir.  1650. 

Rushicorth.  John  Rushworth's  Collections,  publication  begun  about 
1059. 

Parry.    Should  be  Pare. 

Virgor.     Should  be  Vigo.     Jehan  Vigo. 

Broicnrig.  Folio,  1052.  Ralph  Brownrig,  Calvinist,  Royalist,  Bishop 
of  Exeter. 

Assembly's  Annotations.    2  vols.,  folio,  1057. 

Birth  of  Mankind.    Popular  seventeenth  century  midwife's  guide. 

*  Kindly  made  by  Mr.  R.  L.  Traylor,  of  Richmond. 


22  William  axd  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

Poole.    Matthew  Poole,  Non-conformist. 

Durant.    8vo,  1650.     John  Durant,  Xon-conformist  divine. 

Sennertus.    Translations  of  Latin  works  of  D.  Sennertus. 

Crooke.    Helkiah  Crooke's  Anatomy,  first  ed.  pub.  1C15. 

Josephus.  Thomas  Lodge  made  the  first  translation  of  Josephus  into 
English,  and  this  was  probably  the  1670  folio  edition  of  that  translation. 

Newman.  Folio,  1050.  Prepared  in  Mass.  by  Samuel  Newman,  a 
Puritan  divine,  b.  1000  emigrated  to  :Mass.  in  1030,  and  died  there  1663. 

Salmon.     8vo,  1671,  by  Wm.  Salmon. 

Ogilhy.    Folio,  1054,  by  John  Ogilby. 

Phillips.  Folio,  1657,  by  Edward  Phillips,  nephew  and  pupil  of 
Milton. 

Mead.    Matthew  Mead,  Non-conformist  divine,  8vo,  1006. 

Blith.  4to,  1052,  by  Walter  Blith,  the  father  of  the  idea  of  "rotation 
of  crops." 

Ball.  I  think  this  was  the  treatise  on  "Separation"  by  John  Ball,  the 
Puritan  divine  so  highly  commended  by  Baxter. 

Markham.     Svo,  10-19,  by  Gervaise  Markham. 


LETTEE  OF  THOMAS  GKIFFITH. 

London^  the  22^^  of  Nov.,  1655. 
Me.  Pensix:  In  matter  of  sale  of  your  tobacco,  I  have 
hitherto  made  little  progression  in  by  reason  I  find  the  m^kett  soe 
loTT,  as  that  4^  ^  pound  is  easilie  given,  however  I  doubt  not  but 
to  come  to  a  better;  as  for  ^Ir.  Eose  his  business  hee  now  in- 
formed mee  of  his  disposicon;  when  I  spoke  to  him  after  my 
comeinge  then  or  before  for  [England  ?]  I  tooke  him  to  be  hon- 
est, though  somewhat  low  in  the  world,  but  truly  I  now  revoke 
that  opinion  of  him,  for  I  could  not  pvaile  w^^  him  to  release  the 
boy,  notw^^standing  my  informeing  of  him  that  both  yourself e 
and  I  had  promised  his  parents,  that  hee  should  retorne  againe ; 
if  you  pcure  not  at  sea  a  discharge  for  him,  I  feare  you  will  find 
him  troublesome  to  you  in  Virginia,  from  w^^  practizes  of  his  I 
draw  this  inference  that  he  that  will  play  the  knave  w^^  one  man 
will  doe  soe  by  you  or  by  me ;  therefore,  that  you  may  the  better 
p''vent  such  undertakings  of  his,  suffer  him  not  to  bind  the  ser"^* 
to  him,  till  such  time  you  have  hym  firmelie  oblidged  to  pay  you 
7£  ^  heade  for  all  the  people  he  hath  aboard,  either  by  possess- 
ing you  w'^  tobacco  sufficiently  to  dischardge  the  debt,  all  this 
to  be  pformed  w^^  in  tenne  dales  after  your  arrivall  there;  in 
case  he  failes  herein,  that  then  the  serv"  are  yours  to  be  dispsd 


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upon  the  accompt  of  the  shipp,  the  chest  of  goods  doe  you  like- 
wise take  into  your  possession  and  dispose  of  it  for  my  use  ac- 
cording to  y*"  invoyce  my  boy  hath;  for  my  p"^  I  dare  not  trust 
that  man  that  to  my  face  will  deale  unjustlie  by  another.  Xot 
else,  but  wisliing  you  a  good  voyadge  and  assure  myself e  of  your 
faithfullness  according  to  this  order,  I  rest, 
Yours  to  serve  you, 

Tho.  Griffith.^ 

Subscripcon  these — For  Mr.  Samuel  Pensax,  commander  of 
the  Henry  and  David,  bound  for  Virginia. 

Postscript — Shew  this  to  my  boy  and  he  will  deliver  you  the 
invoyce.  I  feare  me  Mr.  Eose  hath  the  key  of  the  chest,  there- 
fore you  must  take  the  goods  into  your  custody;  the  chest  is  his 
own. 

[Recorded  in  Northumberland  county,  February  6,  1055-56.] 


COL.  GERAED  FOWKE  AND  THE  INDIANS.^ 

Mr.  ffowkes  report  of  y  great  man  of  y^  Doeggs  Answeare. 

Mr.  Gerard  ffowke  sent  for  y^  great  man  of  y®  Doeggs,  ac- 
cording to  an  ord'  of  y^  last  court,  and  three  of  ye  Indians  come 
down,  and  he  demanding  satisfacton  for  y^  cattle  they  had  killed 
of  Capt.  Brent's.  The  said  Indians  denyed  that  they  ever  killed, 
it  was  done  by  furren  Indians.  But  they  then  mustered  about  a 
hundred  arms  length  of  Eonoke  for  j^  Govern^  and  said  they 
had  formerly  given  both  Eonoke  and  Beaver  to  Capt  Brent,  al- 
though they  never  did  him  injury,  soe  y®  s^  Mr.  ffow^ke  sent  for 
Capt.  Brent  desiring  that  he  would  be  pleased  to  come  down 
and  hear  what  they  said,  or  send  his  man,  and  he  sent  a  note  to 
y®  said  Mr.  ifowke  und^  his  hand  that  he  thought  it  best  to  referr 
y^  ending  of  y*  treaty  w^^  y®  Doeggs. 

Gerard  fowke. 

20  Aug.,  1658,  this  answer  was  recorded. 

The  agreem*  between  Capt.  Brent  and  y^  king  of  Potomack, 
ffor  a  finall  end  and  determination  of  all  disputes  and  demands 
for  land  made  by  y^  king  of  Potomack  of  Capt.  Giles  Brent,  Esq. 

^  Tiiis  Thomas  Griffith  was  a  merchant  largely  interested  in  Virginia 
trade. 

'  From  the  records  of  Westmoreland  countv. 


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The  said  Capt.  Brent  doth  promise  to  give  unto  y^  said  king 
forthwith  a  cow  and  a  calfe  for  all  y*  land  that  y^  said  Capt. 
Brent  hath  pattented,  notwithstanding  y®  said  Capt.  Brent  hath 
formerly  satisfyed  ye  said  king  for  all  y^  said  land  wherewith 
y^  said  king  was  satisfyed  and  contented.  Giles  Brent,  the  marks 
of- the  king  of  Potomack. 

20th  August,  1658.  This  agreem'^  was  acknowledged  in 
court  by  y^  said  Capt.  Brent  and  y^  king  of  Potomack  and  re- 
corded. 

Isaac  Allerton  and  the  Indians.^ 

"WTiereas,  by  order  from  the  Hon^'®  Governo'"  and  councill, 
y®  com^  of  JSTorthumberland  were  commanded  to  make  inquiry 
concerning  y^  complaint  of  y^  Machoaticl^  Indians  about  Mr.  Al- 
lerton's  intruding  a  plant  aeon  upon  them,  and  in  case  3^  s*^  In- 
dians were  not  content  with  his  being  there,  then  to  remove  him 
and  his  serv^^  away.  In  obedience  to  w'^^  s^  order  we  under  sub- 
scribed have  made  due  inquisition  thereof  and  doe  find  the  said 
Indians  and  their  werowance  Peckatoan  to  be  well  contented 
with   y®  s^  Mr.  Aller ton's    stay  there,  soe    long    as    the    land  | 

(whereon  hee  liveth  already  cleared)  be  usefuU,  provided  that  !' 

noe  more  houseing  be  there  built  than  what  is  now  upon  it,  and  [ 

to  keape  his  cattle  and  hoggs  on  the  other  of  Machoatick  river. 
And  the  s'^  Indians  doe  afirme  that  they  made  noe  late  complaint  i, 

to  Capt.  Fleete,  or  any  other  ag^  y®  s*^  ^Ir.  Allerton,  onely  except-  ^ 

ing  their  complaint  to  y*  Hon^^^  Governor.     In  confirmacon  of  |.. 

y®  p^mises  y^  s*^  Peckatoan  w*^  his  great  men  have  likewise  here-  |- 

unto  subscribed  at  Machoatick  Indian  Town,  the  6th  day  of  i 

February,  1650.  | 

In  presence  of 

Geo.  Colclough.  Peckatoan   (sig.) 

John  Eogers.  Monussacomen  (sig.) 

James  Hawley.  Terossamoh  (sig.) 

Wm.  Presley^s-^  Tahocks. 

Will  Xott.  "^  I 

6  Feb.,  1656  this  writeinsr  was  recorded. 


The  Indian  War,  16:6. 
Att  a  committee  held  for  Northumberland  county  at  y^  court 
howse  y«  4th  of  July,  1676,  Anno  R^  R^  Car.  Secdi  28":'^ 
^  From  the  records  of  Xorthumberland  county. 


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P^sent,  Lt.  Coll.  Sam"  Smyth,  Capt.  Pet.  Knight,  Capt.  Jno. 
Rogers,  Maj"".  Tho.  Brereton,  Mr.  Wm.  Presley,  :\Ir.  Pet.  Presley, 
Capt.  Leo*^  Howson,  Mr.  Nicho.  Owen,  Mr.  Tho.  Mathewes,  ^Mr. 
Philip  Shapleige,  committee. 

Whereas  ^3  act  of  assembly,  we  are  injoyned  to  send  out  of 
this  county  forty-nine  men,  one-eighth  part  of  w*^^  to  be  horse 
with  two  months  pvis'on  and  two  pounds  of  shott  each  man,  six 
horses  for  baggage,  and  what  roaps,  baggs  and  pack-saddles  shall 
be  convenient.  It  is  ordered  y*^  eleaven  men  be  prest  out  of  Coll'* 
Codds  company,  six  out  of  Lt.  Coll  Smyths,  ten  out  of  Capt. 
Rogers,  eight  out  of  Major  Breretons,  eight  out  of  Capt.  How- 
sons,  ordered  y*  fower  horsemen  be  prest  out  of  Capt.  Matt- 
romes  troope,  and  two  out  of  Capt.  K^nights,  to  be  at  ffaire- 
fields  on  Monday  next.  And  y^  the  drums  beate  up  for  volun- 
teers to  goe  out  the  march  ag^"^  the  Indians,  to  be  alsoe  there  in 
ffaixefields.  And  if  there  shall  then  appeare  volunteers  to  make 
up  the  number  of  forty-nine  men,  then  see  many  of  the  men 
prest,  as  aforesaid,  to  be  released,  as  there  shall  then  appeare 
Tolunteers. 

Ordered  y^  Maj^  Brereton  fitt  and  pvide  the  meat  and  baggs, 
and  y'  Capt.  Howson  pvide  pack-saddles. 

Ordered  y^  what  bread  may  be  had  of  ^Ir.  Phillip  ]\Iorgan 
and  Tho.  Hobson  be  prest.  And  y^  each  respective  command'" 
press  or  pvide  what  biskett  shall  be  further  wanting  for  y*  men 
prest  out  of  their  company,  as  aforesaid. 

Ordered  y*  Mr.  Phillip  Sliapleige  provide  a  sufficient  sloope 
•and  men  to  carry  about  the  provisson  and  ammunicon  to  Rhap- 
pahannock,  and  y^  he  be  allowed  after  the  rate  of  two  thousand 
pounds  of  tobacco  ^  month  for  the  time  shee  shall  be  out  in  ser- 
vice for  this  county. 

Ordered,  y*^  two  horses  for  baggage  be  prest  out  of  each  ^  ish 
of  this  county. 

Ordered  y*^  all  the  Indian  men  y*  are  fitt  for  service  be  in 
ffairefields  on  ^londay  next.  That  then  such  of  them  may  be 
drawn  out  to  goe  the  march  as  shall  be  thought  convenient. 

Ordered  y*^  the  command^^  take  care  y}  what  bread  is  pvided 
as  aforesaid  be  conveyed  to  !^^^.  Shapleighs  his  house,  unless 
what  Capt.  Rogers  shall  pvide,  which  is  to  be  carryed  on  the 
pack-horses  for  the  souldiers  use  in  their  march. 


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Ordered  y^  the  commission"  all  meet  at  this  place  on  Monday 
next. 

Att  a  court  held  for  Northumberland  county  y*  19th  of  July, 
1676,  Anno  Eegni  Regis  Car.  Secdi  28°. 

P^sent,  Lt.  Coll.  Sam"  Smyth,  Capt.  Pet.  Knight,  Capt. 
John  Eogers,  Mr.  Wm.  Presley,  Mr.  Pet,  Presley,  Maj""  Tho.  Bre- 
reton,  Capt.  Leo**  Howson,  Mr.  Nicho.  Owen,  Mr.  Tho.  Mathew, 
justices. 

Order  p.  Capt.  Mattrome  and  Capt.  Knight  to  send  forth 
their  horse: 

Whereas  ^  act  of  court  dated  y*  4th  of  July  last.  It  was 
ordered  that  Capt.  Jno.  Mattrome  should  send  out  fower  men 
w'^  good  horses  and  arms  out  of  his  troope  and  Capt.  Pet. 
Knight  should  send  out  two  men  out  of  his  troope  to  be  ready 
march  with  the  men  prest  out  to  goe  ag^  the  Indians.  And 
whereas  Capt.  Knight  hath  not  yet  sent  out  any  men,  out  of  his 
troope,  and  Capt.  Mattrome  hath  sent  out  but  two  men  out  of  his 
troope,  it  is  ordered  y*  y®  s^  Capt.  Knight  and  Capt.  Mattrome 
doe  forthwith  each  of  them  send  out  two  men  well  horst  and 
arms  out  of  their  respective  troopes  immediately  to  goe  up  to 
Grays  fferry  on  Ehappahannoek  river,  there  to  observe  further 
order. 

And  it  is  further  ordered  y^  Capt.  An*^  Morton  bring  in  his 
march  role  on  Saturday  next  to  the  house  of  Thomas  Hobson, 
Clk,  and  that  then  those  m^chants  y^  have  trusted  any  of  the  sd 
soldiers  w-^  goods  ^  order  of  this  court,  upon  their  goeing  out 
produce  such  their  acco^^  y*^  soe  much  may  be  deducted  out  of 
each  man's  pay  as  he  hath  rec*^  of  the  merch^  as  afores"^.  And  it 
is  ordered  y*^  Thomas  Hobson,  Clk,  shall  give  to  each  officer  and  f 

souldier  a  certificate  of  what  remains  due  unto  each  of  them,  of 
their  pay,  on  the  producing  of  w*^^  certificate  (attested  ^  the  ^• 

clk)   either  by  the  officers,  souldiers,  or  merchants  that  have  J 

given  them  creditt  and  taken  the  compt  shall  lay  the  same  sumes  ^ 

due  either  to  officer,  soldier  or  creditor  in  the  county  levy.  t 

At  a  court  held  for  Northumberland  county,  y^  20th  Septem-  I' 

ber,  1676,  Anno  Eegni  Eegis  Car.  Secdi  28°.  f' 

P^sent,  Lt.  Coll.  Sam"  Smyth,  Mr.  Wm.  Presley,  Mr.  Pet.  I 

Presley,  Mr.  Tho.  Mathew,  justices.  t 

Whereas   %1   act  of  assembly  the  severall  countves  in  this- 


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William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  27 

colony  are  enjoyned  to  set  out  such  soldiers  and  pay  them  euch 
waiges  as  the  s^  act,  entitled  an  act  for  y«  carr}'ing  on  a  war 
agst  the  Indians,  relacon  thereto  being  had  more  largely  doth 
appear.  And  whereas  y®  soldiers  set  out  for  this  county  ag*  the 
Indians  have  continued  in  y'-  service  from  the  11th  of  July,  be 
forthw*^  pay^  for  their  said  service,  as  followth,  vizt : 

ibTob. 
Capt.  And.  Morton  for  2  months,  one-third  of  a  month,  . .   1400 

Lt.  Jno..  Browne,  2  months,  one-third  of  a  month, 933 

Serjant  Jno.  Phillips,  2  months,  one-third  of  a  month,  ...     583 
Serjant  Jno.  Trape,  2  months,  one-third  of  a  month,  ....     583 
Jno.  Payne,  drummer,  at  1501b  ^  month,  2  months,  one- 
third  of  a  month,   350 

And  y*  44  souldiers,  at  125rb  ^  month,  ^  each  man  for 
2  months,  one-third  pte  of  month  is  2991b  of  toba.  ^ 
man  is, 1284& 


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PEESOXAL  NOTICES  FKOM  THE  ^^"^IKGIXIA 

GAZETTE." 

[PuRDiE  &  Dixox,  Editors.] 

January,  1767,  to  January,  1769. 

Year  1767. 

Marriages.    Mr.  Walter  Coles,  one  of  the  representatives  in 

Assembly  for  the  county  of  Halifax,  to  Miss  Mildred  Light  foot,  a 

daughter  of  the  late  Colonel  William  Lightfoot,  of  Charles  City. 

Mr.  William  Taylor,  one  of  the  representatives  in  Assembly  for 

the  county  of  Lunenburg,  to  Miss  Patty  Waller,  eldest  daughter 

of  Benjamin  Waller,  Esq.,  of  this  city.  March  19. 

On  Tuesday,  the  21st  of  this  instant,  died,  at  his  home  in 
Cumberland,  Col.  John  Fleming,  member  of  Assembly  for  the 
county,  and  an  eminent  practitioner  in  the  law.  On  the  6th  in- 
stant, died  at  Fredericksburg,  Mr.  William  Scott,  who  for  sev- 
eral years  acquired  great  reputation  in  that  neighbourhood 
through  his  mercantile  connections.  *  *  *  q"'he  following 
evening  his  remains  were  attended  to  the  place  of  interment  by 


US  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

the  right  worshipful,  the  Master  and  Brethren  of  the  Lodge  of 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons — April  30. 

Last  Saturday  evening,  died  at  his  home  in  this  city,  Mr. 
William  Waters.  Arrivals :  In  York  Eiver,  the  Lord  Baltimore 
from  London,  by  whom  we  have  advice  of  the  death  of  the  Hon. 
Pliilip  Ludwell,  Esq.,  one  of  the  members  of  his  Majesty's  coun- 
cil in  this  colony — June  4. 

From  Northumberland  we  learn  that  Mr.  Robert  Woddrop, 
merchant  of  that  county,  died  there  about  the  middle  of  last 
month,  greatly  regretted — June  11.  | 

Last  Thursday,  died  at  his  home  in  Prince  George  Co.,  uni-  i^ 

versally  regretted,  Col.  Alexander  Boiling,  one  of  the  represen-  | 

tatives  for  that  county — June  18.  |; 

On  Wednesday,  the  1st  instant,  died  at  Xorfolk,  after  a 
lingering  illness.  Colonel  Eobert  Tucker,  who  for  these  many 
years  has  carried  on  a  very  extensive  trade  in  that  place  with 
the  greatest  credit  and  honour.  On  Tuesday,  the  30th  ultimo, 
died  at  his  home  in  Smithfield,  Mr.  James  Eason,  merchant 
there — July  9. 

On  Wednesday,  the  8th  instant,  died  at  his  seat  at  Chats- 
worth,  in  the  county  of  Henrico,  the  Hon.  Peter  Eandolph,  Esq., 
surveyor  general  of  his  Majesty's  customs,  and  one  of  the  coun- 
cil of  this  colony.  Lately  died,  Major  Harry  Gaines,  one  of  the 
representatives  in  Assembly  for  King  William  county — July  16. 

Lately  died  at  his  house  in  Smithfield,  after  a  short  illness, 
Capt.  Samuel  Wentworth,  merchant  there  for  many  years — July 
23. 

Last  Friday,  died  of  an  apoplectick  fit,  at  Warren's  Ordi- 
nary, in  iSTew  Kent  county,  Capt.  George  Wilkinson,  commander 
of  the  ship  Madeira  Packet,  of  London — Sept.  10. 

On  the  10th  of  July  last,  died  in  Halifax  county,  Mary 
Hogan,  aged  91  years,  who  for  50  days  before  her  death  took      '         ; 
no  other  sustenance  than  2  spoonsfull  of  sour  milk — Oct.  22.  | 

Last  Monday  morning,  died    at    Col.    William    Allen's,  in  t 

Surry,  where  she  had  been  a  few  days  upon  a  visit,  the  lady  of  ; 

Benjamin  Harrison,  Jun.,  Esq.,  of  Brandon,  in  the  flower  of  her  ? 

age,  and  possessed  of  every  amiable  qualification.     She  has  left  | 


William  and  Mary  College  Quaeterlt.  2^ 

an  inconsolable  husband,  an  afflicted  mother,  weeping  relatives 
and  many  sorrowful  friends. 

Marriages.  William  Randolph,  Esq.,  to  Miss  Mary  Skip- 
with,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Sir  William  Skipwith,  Barronet. 
Edward  Lloyd,  Esq.,  of  Maryland,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Tayloe,  a 
daughter  of  the  Hon.  John  Tayloe,  Esq. — November  26. 

The  Year  1768. 
On  Tuesdaij  evening,  died  at  his  house  in  King  and  Queen, 
the  Eev.  William  Robinson,  the  Lord  Bishop  of  London's  com- 
missary for  this  colony,  and  rector  of  Stratton  Major.  He  was 
a  gentleman  much  esteemed  by  his  parishioners,  and  all  who  had 
the  pleasure  of  knowing  him — Jan.  7. 

On  Saturday,  the  2d  of  this  instant,  about  9  o'clock  at  night, 
died,  Col.  James  Gordon,  of  Lancaster  county,  in  the  o^th  year 
of  his  age.  *  *  *  He  spent  the  last  30  years  of  his  life  in 
said  county  in  trade.  *  *  *  q^^^Q  pg^j.^  assemblage  of  fine 
qualities  made  a  very  discerning  traveller  a  few  years  ago  remark 
of  the  deceased :  ^'That  he  had  not  met  with  any  one  in  the  sev- 
eral provinces  he  had  passed  through  possessing  so  many  real 
excellencies."  [A  long  obituary.] — Jan.  4. 

Yesterday  morning,  died  at  her  house  in  this  city,  after  a 
tedious  illness,  Mrs.  Mary  Grymes,  relict  of  Hon,  Philip  Gr}Tnes, 
deceased.  Lately  died,  in  Hanover,  Mr.  Eobin  Page,  who  had 
for  several  years  labored  under  the  afflicting  pain  of  the  gout,. 
and  of  late  was  seized  with  the  dead  palsy — Jan.  21. 

Died  of  the  small-pox,  Mr.  Dudley  Digges,  and  a  mulatto  man 
belonging  to  the  college.  Mr.  James  Marshall  quite  recovered — 
Feb.  4. 

Early -this  morning,  died  at  the  Palace,  after  a  tedious  ill- 
ness, which  he  bore  with  the  greatest  patience  and  fortitude,  the 
Hon.  Francis  Fauquier,  Esq.,  Lieutenant  Governor  and  com- 
mander in  chief  of  this  colony,  over  which  he  has  presided  near 
ten  years,  much  to  his  own  honor  and  the  ease  and  satisfaction 
of  the  inhabitants.  He  was  a  gentleman  of  a  most  amiable  dis- 
position; generous,  just  and  wdse,  and  possessed  in  an  eminent 
degree  of  all  the  social  virtues.  He  was  Fellow  of  the  Royal  So- 
ciety, and  died  in  his  65th  year — March  3. 


50  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

On  Tuesday  last,  the  remains  of  the  Honourable  Francis 
Fauquier,  Esq.,  deceased,  were  interred  in  our  church.  His 
funeral  was  attended  by  the  Honourable,  the  President,  and 
several  members  of  his  Majesty^s  council,  the  Honourable  the 
Speaker,  the  Treasurer,  his  Majesty's  Attorney  General,  all  the 
gentlemen  in  this  city,  and  its  neighbourhood  and  the  militia 
under  arms,  to  testify  the  respect  due  to  the  memory  of  so  worthy 
a  Governor.  After  the  funeral  service  the  militia  made  three 
discharges  over  the  place  of  interment — March  10. 

Last  week  was  married  i^athaniel  Carpenter,  Esq.,  Collector 
of  his  Majesty's  customs,  to  Miss  Nancy  Fauntleroy — March  17.  I 

Last  Saturday  morning  died,  in  the  58th  year  of  her  age,  I 

Mrs.  M£i  ry  Prentis,  relict  of  the  late  Mr.  William  Prentis,  of  this  I 

city — April  14.  I 

Oji  Thursday  last,  David  Meade,  Esq.,  of  ^NTansemond,  was  | 

married  to  Miss  Sally  Waters,  of  this  city — May  19.  '| 

Last  Thursday  the  Eev.  Mr.  Josiah  Johnson,  one  of  the  mas-  | 

ters  of  this  College,  was  married  to  Miss  Mildred  Moody,  an  I 

agreeable  young  lady — May  26.  | 

Last  Thursday  Warner  Lewis,  Jun.,  Esq.,  of  Gloucester,  was  t 

married  to  Miss  Polly  Chiswell,  '1  this  city,  an  accomplished  L 

young  lady — June  2.  | 

On  Saturday  last  was   married,   at   Jordan's,   Mr.   Piobert  | 

Goode,  of    Henrico,  to  Miss    Sally  Bland,  a  daughter  of    Col.  | 

Eichard  Bland's,  an  agreeable  young  lady — June  23.  I 

On  Sunday,  the  19th  instant,  after  a  short  illness,  departed  | 

this  life,  much  lamented,  the  Honourable  Benjamin  Tasker,  | 

Esq.,  President  of  the  council  in  the  province  of  ^.laryland,  &c.  | 

—June  30.  | 

On  Sunday,  the  26  ult.,  died  at  his  home  in  iSTorthampton  f 

county.  Col.  Littleton,  Esq.    *    *    *    He  was  many  years  judge  f 

of  the  court  and  representative  of  the  county  in  which  he  lived.      .  \ 

On  the  21st  ult.,  died,  in  Gloucester  county,  much  regretted,  ; 

Mrs.  Frances  Booth,  relict  of  the  late  Dr.  George  Booth — July  7.  I 

On  Monday,   the   Sfh  i7istant,  died   Christopher   Eobinson,  ] 

Esq.,  of  Middlesex — July  28.  » 

"On  Friday,  the  14//i  instant,  died,  after  a  short  illness,  at  -^ 
his  seat  at  Marlborough,  in  Stafford  county.,  asred  64,  John  Mer- 


Willi A]vr  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  31 

cer,  Esq.,  for  many  years  a  very  eminent  lawyer,  and  remarkable 
for  his  assiduity  in  his  profession.  He  was  a  gentleman  greatly 
tjs teemed,  and  of  consequence  is  much  regretted — Oct.  27. 

Last  Sunday  morning  died,  at  the  treasurer's,  in  this  city, 
after  a  tedious  illness,  Edward  Ambler,  Esq.,  representative  in 
Assembly  for  Jamestown,  a  gentleman  of  most  amiable  char- 
acter, wliich  makes  his  death  much  lamented  by  all  who  had  the 
pleasure  of  knowing  him — iSTov.  3. 

Anthony  Walhe,  Sen.,  Esq.,  who  died  the  8th  ultimo,  in  the 
7Gth  year  of  his  age.  "County  Lieutenant  and  Judge  of  the 
Court  of  Princess  Anne.  .  .  .  From  a  slender  education,  such 
as  a  little  reading  and  writing  as  the  times  could  then  afford,  he 
made  a  wonderful  proficiency  in  true  and  solid  knowledge  greatly 
preferable  to  a  knowledge  of  words  and  language."  [Long  obit- 
uary.]— Dec.  22. 

TITHABLES  IN"  KllsG  WILLIAM  PARISH,^  GOOCH- 
LAIS^D  COUNTY. 

A  list  of  the  tithables  in  my  precinct  for  the  year  1735  : 
Edward  Scott,  9;   John  Edmons,  2;    James  Eobinson,  con- 
stable ;  Pane  Chastain,  3 ;  Wm.  Sallee,  6 ;   Gideon  Chambon,  -i 
Pobert  Ellis,  1;    Peter  Louis  Soblet,  2;    Charles  Yernion,  1 
John  Levillain,  4:    Stephen  Chastain,  7;    Andrew  AmonetC'^l 
Stephen  Pantree,  b ;  John  Chastain,  2 ;  Charles  Amonet,  1 :  An- 
thony Bernard,  1;    Peter  Sallet,  2;    David  Bernard,  1;    John 
Bernard,  1;   James  faurd,:2;   John  Bondurant,  2;   Jolin  Peter 
billo,  2;   Isaac  Gory,  1;   Wm.  Stanford,  1;   for  Ann  David,  4; 
David  Leseur,  constable,  1 ;   James  Brians,  1 ;   James  holeman, 
2;  Bartholomew  Dupuy,  1. — 68. 

John  Dupuy,  2 ;  Peter  Dupuy,  1 ;  Peter  f  aur(i,^  2  ;  John 
faurd^  1 ;  Thomas  Porter,  3 ;  John  Porter,  3  ;  Joseph  Benain, 
1 ;  Anthony  Benain,  5 ;  "Wm.  Harris,  1 :  Nicholas  Soulee,  4 ; 
Peter  Giierrant,  4;  x\nthony  Eapine,  5;  Peter  Soblet,  jr.,  1; 
David  Thomas,  1;    for  Joseph  Bingley,  1;    Stephen  farcy,  2; 

^This  is  the  parish  in  which  the  French  nuguenots  first  settled.  See 
"Iluguenot  Emigration  to  Virginia,"  Virginia  Historical  Collections. 
N'ew  series,  Vol.  V.  The  parishes  in  Virginia  were  divided  into  precincts 
t<)  each  of  which  was  asaijrned  a  constable. 


32  WiLLiAit  AND  Mary  College  ^        .erly. 

Stephen  Calvet,  1;   John  Ilaris,  3;  .1  pero,  3;    for  John 

James  flournoy,  4 ;   Samuel  Weave  james  Soblet,  1;  James  ;| 

Desnsy,  1;  Thomas  Dickens,  7.-  -    .    ,-  68  =  125.  [j 

[Signed]  David  Le  Seur.  Jj 


POLLS  m  WESTM^   -J.aXD  COUXTT  FOR  ELECTIOX 
■v  BURGESSES. 

Sept.  14,  r      .'     For    Capt.  Andrew    Monroe,  139;    Capt. 

George  Lee.  "  '■       -Ir.  John  Biishrod,  92.  1 1 

May  ^      I'  xS:   For  Mr.  John  Bushrod,  304;   Major  George  H 

Lee,  2^.  .     ;ipt.  Robert  Vaulx,  189.  |1 

•J,  1752 :  Mr.  John  Bushrod,  262 ;  Robert  Yaulx,  gent.^,  i  j 

V     .    vol.  Richard  Lee,  157;   Robert  Carter,  Esq.,  34.  || 

:>ept.  12,  1754:^  For  Col.  Augustine  Washington,  194;  Rich-  '| 

.  rd  Lee,  Esq.,  130;  Robert  Carter,  Esq.,  7.  jl 

Dee.  8,  1756:   Col.  Augustine  Washington,  187;   Col.  Pliilip  ;| 

Ludwell  Lee,  183;   Richard  Lee,  Esq.,  168;    Mr.  William  Ber-  .| 

nard,  138.  l| 

May  16,  1761:    For  Richard  Lee,  Esq.,  233;    Col.  Richard  .[ 

Henry  Lee,  222;  Mr.  William  Bernard,  157.  ^ 

w 


PRINCETON'S  DEBT  TO  WILLIAM  AND  MARY. 

At  various  times  during  the  Colonial  days  Williamsburg  made- 
generous  contributions  to  Canada,  and  to  the  Northern  Colonies. 

When  Rev.  Thomas  Bacon  came  to  Williamsburg  in  1751  to 
raise  funds  for  his  school  in  Talbot  Co.,  Md.,  he  received  liberal 
encouragemenc  in  money  from  the  president  and  professors  of 
the  college  and  prominent  citizens  of  the  place. 

When  Montreal  was  burned  in  1765,  the  people  of  the  college 
and  of  Williamsburg  made  a  like  generoas  response. 

When  Boston  port  was  shut  up  by  act  of  the  British  Parlia- 
ment in  1774,  Williamsburg  sent  generous  supplies  to  the  relief 
of  the  starving  people. 

When  the  University  of  Princeton,  now  so  great  and  flourish- 

^  These  two  elections  were  to  fill  vacancies,  vrhicll  probablj  accoiints 
for  the  small  vote. 


William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  33 

in'-^,  was  struggling  in  its  incipiency,  tl)c  Rev.  Dr.  Witherspoon, 
its  president,  visited  Williatrisburg,  when  such  was  the  in- 
terest of  the  people  in  that  "excellent  and  growing  foundation" 
that  no  building  in  the  place  could  hold  the  crowd  that  pressed  to 
hoar  him  preach.  The  following  is  an  extract  from  the  Virginia 
Gazette  for  Nov.  2,  1769: 

Last  Sunday  afternoon  the  Reverend  Dr.  Witherspoon,  Prersident  of 
the  College  o^  Nassau  Hall,  at  Princeton,  preached  to  a  crowded  audience 
in  the  capitol  yard  (there  being  no  house  in  town  capable  of  containing 
such  a  multitude),  and  gave  universal  satisfaction.  After  sermon  a  col- 
lection was  made  for  this  excellent  and  growing  foundation,  which  as 
yet  has  no  other  support  than  the  generosity  of  the  public,  that  amounted 
to  upwards  of  66  pounds,  and  we  have  it  from  good  authority  that  his- 
Excellency  the  Governor  (Lord  Botetourt)  has  paid  into  the  hands  of  Dr. 
Witherspoon,  for  the  same  benevolent  purpose,  a  further  donation  of  fifty 
pounds  (such  a  glorious  spirit  for  the  encouragement  of  useful  learning 
deserves  the  highest  praise,  and  no  doubt  will  atiord  much  pleasure  to 
every  lover  of  the  sciences). 


AREEST  OF  COL.  JOHX  CARTER,  THE  CAVALIER. 

By  the  Governor  and  Capt.  General  of  Virginia : 
"Whereas  the  safety  and  peace  of  this  Colony  hath  been  much 
endangered  by  the  exorbitant  and  undue  practices  of  some  men 
in  contempt  of  the  late  commission  of  the  government,  sent  from 
his  Highness,  and  the  Lords  of  his  Council.  These  are  therefore, 
in  the  name  of  his  Highness,  the  Lord-Protector,  to  will  and  re- 
quire you  immediately  upon  sight  hereof,  to  take  into  your  safe 
custody  the  body  of  Col.  John  Carter,  and  him  safely  to  detain  or 
take  such  sufficient  security  that  he  may  answer  on  the  third  day 
of  ^lay  next  ensuing,  such  matters  as  shall  be  objected  ag'  him, 
;ind  in  behalf  of  his  Highness,  the  Lord-Protector,  before  y^ 
Governor  and  Council  at  James  City ;  hereof  fail  not  at  your  peril 
as  also  to  make  sufficient  returne  of  this  wTit,  dated  under  my 
hand  this  8th  of  April,  1659.  To  the  Sheriff  of  Lancaster  county 
or  his  deputy.  Saim.  Mathewes. 

*  From  the  records  of  Lancaster  county.  In  March,  lC58-'o9,  the  letter 
of  the  council  in  England,  notifying  the  Virginia  authorities  of  the  ac- 
cession of  Richard  Cromwell,  had  been  read  in  the  House  of  Burgesses, 
and  assented  to  {Eening  L,  p.  509-511).  It  appears  that  Col.  John 
Carter  was  one  of  those  who  grumbled  against  the  new  authority. 


34  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

CHARLES  STEDMAN. 

Communicated  by  Edward  W.  James. 

Alexandor  Stedman,  born  in  1703,  died  in  1704,  became  an 
advocate  and  was  a  Jacobite,  and  after  the  battle  of  Culloden 
•with  two  brothers,  fled  the  country,  and  settling  in  Philadelphia, 
was  in  the  course  of  time  made  a  judge  of  the  Supreme  Court, 
but  being  a  Loyalist,  he,  after  the  Declaration  of  Independence, 
returned  to  England,  and  died  at  Swansea,  Wales.  His  wife  was 
a  Miss  Elizabeth  Chancellor,  daughter  of  an  immgrant  from 
Somerset.  Their  second  son,  Charles,  was  born  in  Philadelphia 
in  1753,  and  educated  at  William  and  Mary  College  for  the  law. 
He  was  a  Loyalist  like  his  father,  and- was  appointed  a  commis- 
sary in  the  army  under  Sir  William  Howe.  He  afterwards  com- 
manded a  rifle  corps  composed  of  colonists  from  the  Palatinate. 
He  was  twice  a  prisoner,  and  each  time  was  sentenced  to  be 
hanged  as  a  rebel,  but  managed  each  time  to  escape.  He  was 
twice  severely  wounded.  After  the  Pievolution  he  retired  to 
England  on  the  half  pay  of  a  colonel,  and  was  one  of  those  who 
examined  and  settled  the  claims  of  Loyalists.  ^'In  1794  appeared 
his  History  of  the  Origin,  Progress  and  Termination  of  the 
American  War."  In  1797  he  was,  through  the  influence  of  the 
Marquis  of  Cornwallis,  appointed  to  the  office  of  deputy  control- 
ler and  accountant  general  of  the  revenue  of  stamps.  He  died 
June  26,  1812.  He  married  Mary  Bowen,  by  whom  he  had  one 
son,  John,  who  became  judge  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty  at  Gi- 
braltar, and  in  1857  compiled  a  genealogical  memoir  of  the  fam- 
ily. (Abbreviated  from  a  sketch  of  Charles  Stedman  by  J.  S. 
Cotton,  in  Vol.  LIV.  of  the  Dictionary  of  National  Biography.) 


MAPtY  BLAXD'S  DEATH. 
Letter  of  Hexry  Lee.^ 

Leesylvaxia,  2Iay  13th,  17 6 J/^ 
Dear  Brothers — I  received  yours  before  night,  the  same 
day  my  mother  died,  with  that  melcincholy  acc'^  w*^^  gave  me  such 
a  shock  I  never  before  felt;    her  amiable  deportment  to  all  in 

*  Communicated  bv  Dr.  E.  J.  Lee. 


William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  35 

gciieral  and  her  maternal  tenderness  and  affection  to  us  in  par- 
ticular, makes  our  loss  almost  inconsolable,  and  with  Jeremiah 
in  his  Lamentations,  cry  out,  "that  there  is  no  sorrow  like  unto 
i]jy  sorrow  wherewith  the  Lord  hath  afflicted  me,  my  eyes  do  fail 
with  tears,  my  bowels  are  troubled/'  This  ought  to  comfort  us 
wlien  we  consider  that  she  lived  such  a  life  that  she  dared  to  die 
and  is  now  translated  from  a  world  of  misery  to  everlasting  hap- 
piness. That  we  may  emulate  her  good  example  and  with  the 
iloly  Psalmist,  in  her,  "Mark  the  perfect  man  and  behold  the 
upright,"  that  our  end  may  be  like  his  and  that  of  our  most  ex- 
cellent mother,  who  lived  universally  beloved  and  dies  generally 
iauiented,  excelled  by  few  if  equalled  by  any. 

]\[rs.  Lee's  great  desire  of  being  at  liet  interment  and  the  dis- 
tance so  great  that  for  us  to  reach  Lee  Hall  in  time  ^^^^^vlay 
would  be  impracticable,  but  propose  to  be  there  by  Wednesday 
night  to  attend  the  funeral  on  Friday,  to  pay  our  last  tribute  of 
duty  and  gratitude;  when  I  hope  the  same  will  be  conducted  in 
that  suitable  manner  and  with  the  respect  due  from  children  to 
the  last  remains  of  the  best  of  mothers,  the  best  of  women  and  the 
best  of  friends.  A  favourite  text  in  the  Bible  Psalms  she  choose, 
w-'^  is  marked  down  in  the  old  family  Bible,  w*^^  I  believe  my  sis- 
tor  Ball  can  shew,  and  it  was  her  desire  that  Mr.  Currie  should 
preach  her  sermon.  I  think  notice  ought  to  be  given  of  the  same 
in  the  Parish  churches  of  the  neighbouring  countys  and  that  the 
church  would  be  the  proper  place.  The  two  CoP.  Blands  in  par- 
t'cular  and  all  her  relations  ought  to  be  invited.  Mrs.  Lee  de- 
sires that  her  son  Henry  may  be  there,  I  shall  bring  Charles 
dovv'n  to  go  to  school. 

My  heart  is  too  full  to  say  more  on  this  doleful  subject,  but 
'.nust  conclude  with  the  most  brotherly  love  and  aff^'^  for  my  sister 
and  you  both.'  Hexey  Lee. 


HUXC  FOR  XEGEO  MURDER. 

^yUUamshurg,  Nov.  23,  1739: 

This  day  7  of  the  9  malefactors  who  received  sentence  of 

<-"ath  at  the  last  General  Court  were  carried  from  the  public 

pnxm  to  the  usual  place  of  execution  and  were  hanged,  viz. : 

Charles  Quin,  an  overseer,  and  David  White,  an  accessory. 


♦V     7riA'-y 


^00782 


36  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

from  Essex  county;  for  the  murder  of  a  uegro  belonging  to  Col. 
Braxton  by  whipping  him  to  death  in  a  most  cruel  and  barbarous 
manner. — Va.  Gazette. 

"William  Pitman,  being  found  guilty  by  the  jury,  received 
sentence  of  death  from  the  General  Court  for  beating  his  negro 
boy  to  death.  *  *  "This  man  has  justly  incurred  the  penalties 
of  the  law,  and  we  hear  will  certainly  suffer,  which  ought  to  be 
a  warning  to  others  to  treat  their  slaves  with  moderation,"  etc. — 
Va.  Gazette,  April  21,  1775  (Alexander  Purdie). 


LADIES  OF  THE  ASSOCIATION. 

"It  is  with  the  highest  pleasure  we  can  inform  our  readers  the 
Association  meets  with  the  greatest  encouragement  in  every 
county  that  we  have  yet  heard  from.  We  cannot  refrain  from 
publishing  the  names  of  the  widow  ladies  who  have  acceded  to 
the  Association:  Mrs.  Lucy  Randolph/  Chatsworth;  Mrs.  Anne 
Randolph,-  Wilton;  Mrs.  Mary  Starke,^  Dinwiddle;  Mrs.  Chris- 
tian Burwell,*  Williamsburg;  Mrs.  Eebecca  Watson,  Richmond 
City."— Ta.  Gazette,  July  27,  1769. 


METHODISTS. 


"All  the  ladies  and  almost  ever}"  order  of  people  here  are  be- 
come proseMes  to  Methodism;  the  Church  is  quite  deserted.  I 
dare  say  there  were  near  3,000  people  to  hear  Mr.  Piimore  on 
Sunday  in  the  fields.  They  flock  to  him  from  all  quarters,  and 
invite  him  to  preach  in  every  neighborhood.  The  women  call 
him  ^the  dear,  divine  man.' " — Va.  Gazette,  July  28,  1772,  quot- 
ing from  a  letter  written  from  iSTorfolk. 

^  Widow  of  Col.  Peter  Eaiidolph,  of  "'Chatswortli,"  Henrico  county, 
and  dau.  of  Eobert  Boiling,  of  ''Bollinsbrook"  ( see  Quarterly  ^T;I..  p.  123  ) . 

*  Widow  of  Col.  William  Randolph,  of  "Wilton,"  Henrico  county,  and 
dau.  of  Col.  Benjamin  Harrison,  of  "Berkeley"  {Ibid). 

'Widow  of  William   Starke,   and   daughter   of   Col.   Robert  Boiling 
{Ibid  IV.,  ^.  170). 

*  Widow  of  Col.  Armistead  Burwell,  and  doughter  of  Hon.  John  Blair, 
President  of  Virginia  Council. 


William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  37 

COLONIAL  ROx\DS  AND  WHEELED  VEHICLES. 

Until  1630  the  settlements  in  Virginia  were  all  upon  the 
Jnmcs  river  or  Acconiac  shore^  and  commimication  between  the 
settlers  was  chiefly  by  boat  and  sloop.  In  1C30  Chiskiack  and 
York  on  the  York  river  were  planted,  and  in  1G32  ^liddle  Plan- 
tation was  laid  out.  Settlements  now  began  to  spread  into  the 
interior,  as  shown  by  the  grants  of  land.  At  first,  of  course,  the 
communication  with  the  interior  plantations  was  by  horse-paths, 
or  bridle-paths,  generally  following  some  old  Indian  trail. 

As  the  settlements  extended  further  into  the  interior,  and 
counties  were  formed,  the  horse-paths  grew  into  roads.  Thus  the 
road  that  passes  by  the  •college  up  the  Peninsula  is  the  Indian 
trail  to  Eockahock  on  the  Pamunkey.  This  trail  repeatedly 
comes  up  in  the  boundaries  of  patents.  As  early  as  1632  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  ordered  that  "the  Governor  and  Council,  or  com- 
missioners for  the  courts  or  parishoners  of  a  parish,  shall  lay  out 
higliivays,  according  as  they  might  seem  convenient.'"  This  order 
was  entered  when  the  settlements  scarcely  extended  beyond  the 
banks  of  the  James.  The  parish  churches,  court-houses,  ferries 
and  ordinaries  became  the  focal  points  for  roads,  and  the  ex- 
istence of  roads,  if  other  proof  were  wanting,  would  prove  the 
existence  of  carts,  for  which  they  were  especially  necessary.^ 

^  There  are  frequent  entries  in  the  county  records  of  orders  like  the 
following:  "York  court,  November  12,  1678.  John  Nicholas  and  Nich- 
olas Seabrill  are  appointed  surveyors  of  the  highwaies  for  Bruton  parish. 
John  Cosby,  John  Sanders  and  Argall  Blackstone  for  Yorke  psh.,  and 
Mr.  Thomas  Harwood  and  William  Wise  for  New  Poquoson  parish,  and 
ordered  that  they  within  their  severall  lymitts,  keepe  free  and  clear  all 
[tublique  Roades,  as  Roades  to  Jamestow^ne,  to  Church  and  Mill,  and 
where  there  are  any  publique  landings  defective  and  out  of  repaire,  that 
the  same  be  repaired  for  the  greater  safety  of  dealers  in  landing  their 

g<X)d3.'^ 

In  1670  Thomas  Hunt  was  granted  permission  to  clear  a  way  for 
horses  and  carts  across  Powhatan  Swamp,  in  James  City,  to  Jamestown. 
i,<Jeneral  court  records.) 

In  1680  an  order  was  entered  by  York  court  for  the  surveyor  to  clear 
*he  road  at  the  head  of  Old  Pocoson  creek,  "comonly  called  the  Damms, 
now  of  late  hindered  and  obstructed  by  Andrew  Davy  and  David  Lewis." 
**>t  bein;^  (on  the  oaths  of  two  'antient  inhabitants,'  Robert  Draper  and 
rXyx^  Davis)  for  40  years  a  common  highway  for  horses  and  alsoe  for 
<^»'ts,  since  they  were  in  use  in  these  parts." 


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38             William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  g- 

Already  by  1G75  some  of  the  cart-ways  were  known  as  ''the 
old  cart-ways/'^  Tlicy  were  doubtless  poorly  kept,  so  that  the 
General  Assembly  at  the  session  of  March,  16o7-'58,  had  com- 
manded that  "surveyors  of  highways  and  maintenance  of  bridges 

be  yearly  kept  and  appointed  in  each  countie  court  respectively,  4 
and  that  all  general  wayes  from  county  to  county,  and  all  church- 
waies  to  be  laid  and  cleered  yearly  as  each  county  court  shall 

think  fitt,  needfull  and  convenient,  respect  being  had  to  the  | 

course  used  in  England  to  that  end."    "The  course  used  in  Eng-  |' 

land,"  referred  to  in  the  latter  part  of  this  order,  made  it  the  duty  | 

of  each  citizen  in  the  road  district  to  serve  at  least  one  day  an-  | 

nually  on  the  highways  at  call  of  the  surveyor.     So  in  Virginia  i 

the  parish  was  early  divided  into  precincts  to  each  of  which  was  F 
appointed  a  surveyor  and  a  constable,^  and  often  a  deputy  or 

head-borough  to  assist  the  last.  I 

The  distances  at  which  the  planters  lived  from  one  another  t 

and  from  the  public  places  made  the  proper  keeping  of  the  roads  f 

a  matter  of  great  difficulty.     Trees  would  fall  across  the  roarJs  t 

and  the  next  traveller  that  came  alon^^  would  cut  a  detour  * 

through  the  woods  in  order  to  obviate  the  trouble  of  removing  the  '  i 
fallen  debris.    Then  parts  of  the  less  frequented  roads  were  often 
fenced  in  by  some  new  patentee.    In  order  to  obviate  this  trouble, 
the  General  Assembly  in  March,  1661-'62,  revised  the  previous 

laws,  and  ordered  the  grand  juries  of  the  counties  to  present  any  > 

one  who  should  fall  trees  upon  the  highways,  or  fence  in  any  part  \ 

of  the  same  within  their  own  plantation.     In  addition  thev  re-  :. 

cjuired  the  surveyors  to  keep  the  roads  forty  feet  wide,  free  from  t 

all  logs,  and  the  bridges  in  good  repair.    The  act  went  further  i 

and  denounced  a  fine  of  500  pounds  of  tobacco  upon  any  court  t 

failing  to  appoint  the  surveyors  annually  and  upon  the  vestries  | 
failing  to  send  men,  according  to  the  number  of  tithables  in  a 

family,  when  requested  by  the  surveyor.  f 

Carts  became  more  and  more  numerous  as  the  seventeenth  V 

century  advanced  to  its  close,  and  gradually  some  carriages  and  | 

^  See  Quarterly,  VII.,  p.  238.  | 

-Abingdon  Parish,  in  Gloucester,  had  as  many  as  ten  precincts.    York  f 

county  had  four  parishes,  each  of  which  was  divided  into  one  or  more  | 

precincts.  | 


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coaches^  were  introduced.  Still  it  may  be  said  that  in  this  cen- 
tury travelling  by  horseback  was  the  usual  way.  Indeed  horse- 
riding  never  lost  its  charms  among  the  Virginia  planters.  Many 
of  the  sports  of  the  people  continued  in  connection'  with  horse- 
back riding  long  after  carriages  were  abundant — such  as  horse- 
racing  and  fox-hnnting.  No  other  colony,  in  fact,  had  so  many 
fine  horses  as  Virginia.  ."Almost  every  ordinary  person  keeps  a 
horse/'  says  Hugh  Jones  in  his  Present  State  of  Virginia. 

The  wonderful  increase  of  wealth  in  Virginia  during  the 
<?ighteenth  century,  which  the  same  writer  sa3's  was  as  great  in 
the  first  ten  years  of  Spotswood's  administration  as  during  all 
the  previous  period  of  colonization,  showed  itself  in  the  remark- 
able growth  of  wheeled  vehicles.  Hitherto  the  laws  had  only 
fixed  ferriages  for  man  and  horse,  but  presently  during  this  cen- 
tury carriages  became  so  numerous  that  the  General  Assembly  in 
1720  established  rates  for  the  ferriages  of  "coaches,  carts  and 
waggons."  In  1722  Hugh  Jones  declared  that  '"most  families  of 
any  note  in  Williamsburg  had  a  coach,  chariot,  Berlin  or  chaise." 
Indeed  the  inventories  seem  to  show  that  every  planter  of  any  im- 
portance, even  outside  of  Williamsburg,  had  one  of  these. 

Thus  to  site  some  instances  of  the  use  of  carriages  during 
the  eighteenth  century: 

In  1710  Col.  W^m.  Churchill  gave  his  wife  his  "new  calash 
expected  out  of  England."  Edmund  Berkeley  gave  his  sister 
Martha  Armistead  in  1711  "his  chariot  and  horses."  The  inven- 
tory of  James  Burwell,  dec'd,  names  in  1718  his  "coach  and  har- 
ness, with  a  pT  of  new  wheels,  4  coach  horses,  1  pacing  horse,  9 
other  horses  and  colts."  Joseph  Walker,  of  York  county,  in  1723, 
gave  his  wife  Sarah  his  "chariot,  furniture  and  horses."    Moore 

^  Sir  William  Berkeley  had  a  coach  in  1C76,  and  one  of  the  amusing 
incidents  connected  with  Bacon's  Rebellion  is  that  Lady  Berkeley,  to 
''how  her  contempt  for  his  Majesty's  Royal  Commissioners,  directed  the 
common  hangman  to  act  as  driver  of  the  coach  which  was  to  convey 
them  from  Greenspring  to  their  boats  at  the  river  side. 

In  Capt.  John  Stanhope's  inventory  (York  county,  1G94)  one  pair  of 
v^licels  and  cart  are  valued  at  250  pounds  tobacco.  The  inventory  of 
Elisha  Stanton  (1694),  names  one  cart  and  wheels  and  harness  for  three 
horses.  The  inventory  of  John  Nickson,  deceased  (1694),  values  a  cart 
and  wheels  and  harness  for  three  horses  at  2£.  lOs.  The  same  year  Ralph 
Graves'  inventory  mentions  four  horse  harness,  one  cart  saddle,  etc. 


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Faimtleroy,  of  Richmond  county,  devii?ed  to  his  wife,  in  1730,  his 
"chariot  and  horses,"  and  to  his  son  "his  silver  tankard,  with  his 
coat  of  arms  upon  it/^  In  1733  the  inventory  of  Kohert  Beverley, 
of  Spotsylvania,  mentions  "one  old  chaise  and  harness  for  two 
horses."  To  the  estate  of  Elizabeth  Stanard,  dec'd,  belonged 
"one  four-wheeled  chaise."  Thomas  Xelson,  of  Yorktown,  men- 
tions, in  1745,  "liis  chariot  and  horses."  Col.  John  Tayloe,  of 
Mt.  Airy,  in  Eichmond  county,  in  1744,  devised  to  his  wife  "Tiis 
negro  coachman,  chariot  and  six  horses."  Philip  Lightfoot,  of 
Sandy  Point,  in  1748,  had  "a  coach  and  six  horses,"  and  several 
"two-wheeled  and  four-wheeled  chairs."  Hon.  John  Blair,  of 
Williamsburg,  mentions  his  coach  in  1751.  Edmund  Berkeley, 
of  Barn  Elms,  gave  his  wife,  in  1763,  ^liis  chariot  and  horses, 
with  y®  plate  and  all  the  stock."    In  1756  Major  Philip  Grymes,  | 

of  Brandon,  in  Middlesex,  left  his  wife  "his  plate,  coach  and  1 

horses  during  her  widowhood."    Major  Humphrey  Hill,  of  King  I 

and  Queen,  mentions,  in  1774,  ^Tiis  chair  and  chair  horses."  •  | 

Hon.  Pe}i:on  Eandolph^s  estate,  owned  in  1774,  "one  chariot  and  I 

8  harness;   5  chariot  horses  worth  230£,  phaeton  worth  15£,  one  ] 

riding  horse  worth  30£."    Ralph  Wormeley,  of  "Rosegill,*'  gave  \ 

his  ^dfe,  in  17S7,  the  use  of  his  "cook,  gardener,  postillions, 
chariot  and  chariot  horses,"  etc.  I 

About  the  middle  of  the  eijjhteenth  centurv  carriao-es  and  i 

coaches  began  to  figure  in  the  tax  laws.     The  tax  was  propor-  | 

tioned  to  the  number  of  wheels.  | 

When  Mr.  William  Hamilton,  a  merchant  of  London,  sent  | 

over  to  Francis  Jerdone,  a  leading  merchant  of  Yorktown,  a  ] 

second-hand  chariot  and  some  second-hand  clothes,  the  latter  re-  j 

plied,  under  date  20th  September,  1753 :  I 

"Since  my  last  to  you,  which  was  the  10th  of  April,  I  have  not  been  5 

favored  with  •any  of  yours.    I  am  now  to  advise  you  that  I  have  sold  the  | 

chariot  you  sent  me  by  Capt.  Paterson  for  forty  pistoles,  being  £43  curt        ,         ■j 
to  Col.  ffolke  Moseley,  which  was  the  most  that  I  could  make  of  it,  | 

and  if  that  gentleman  hod  not  bought  it,  I  believe  it  would  have  been  on  ,  j 

hand  at  this  time,  second-hand  goods  being  no  way  saleable  here ;   for  our  ; 

Gentry  have  such  proud  spirits  that  nothing  will  go  down,  but  equip-  ■ 

ages  of  the  nicest  and  newest  fashions.  You'll  hardly  believe  it  when  I 
tell  you  that  there  are  sundry  chariots  now  in  the  country  which  cost 
200  guineas,  and  one  that  cost  2G0.  The  box  of  old  clothes,  as  I  formerly- 
advised  you,  was  sent  to  Maderia,  and  from  thence  to  the  West  Indies, 
but  could  not  be  sold  at  either  places,  and  as  it  is  impossible  to  sell 


William  and  ;Mary  College  Quarterly.  41 

them  here,  I  return  them  ajfain  to  you  by  Capt.  Peter  Mouatt  in  the 
Commerce,  who  has  promised  me  to  take  care  of  tliem  for  you.  Be 
pleased  to  let  know  to  whom  I  am  to  remit  the  value  of  the  chariot,  as 
your  letter  which  enclosed  the  bill  of  lading  to  me,  desired  me  to  keep  it 
until  further  orders,  since  which  your  friend,  iMr.  Richard  Graham,  has 
wrote  to  me  pressingly  to  remit  him  the  produce  of  it.  Annexed  hereto 
you  have  an  aeet  of  the  things  returned  you  by  Capt.  Monatt,  the  old 
sadle  went  along  with  the  chariot  and  harness  to  serve  for  a  postilion 
sadle.  I  hope  ]Mr.  Graham  will  be  well  satisfied  with  the  sale  of  the 
chariot,  which  was  really  much  damaged  in  the  passage  by  the  rats.  I 
hope  that  I  shall  never  have  such  another  consignment." 

Thus  it  seems  that  while^  from  the  compactness  of  their  set- 
tlements, the  Xorthern  colonies  had  better  roads  than  their 
Southern  neighbors,  the  facilities  of  locomotion  were  after  all 
greater  in  the  South  than  in  the  ZSTorth.  The  former  colonies 
had  neither  so  elegant  nor  so  many  horses  and  wheeled  vehicles- 
proportionately  as  the  Southern  colonies.  This  different  is  ac- 
centuated by  travellers  who  visited  the  country  about  tliis  time : 

"The  horses  are  fleet  and  beautiful;  and  the  gentlemen  of  Virginia, 
who  are  exceedingly  fond  of  horse  racing,  have  spared  no  expense  or 
trouble  to  improve  the  breed  of  them  by  exporting  great  numbers  from 
England."     {Burnaty's  Travels  in  America,  1759.) 

"The  horses  of  Virginia  are,  without  contradiction,  the  finest  in  the 
country,  but  they  have  double  the  prices  of  those  in  the  Northern  States." 
{Brissot  de  ^yarviUe,  1788.) 

"The  meadows  and  marshes    (around  Williamsburg)    subsist  great 
numbers  of  excellent  horses  which  far  exceed  those  of  the  other  States 
in  point  of  beauty."   [RoVin's  Travels  in  1781.) 
The  latter  writer  adds : 

"As  we  advance  towards  the  South,  we  observe  a  sensible  difference 
in  the  manners  and  customs  of  the  people.  We  no  longer  find,  as  in  Con- 
necticut, houses  situated  along  the  road  at  small  distances,  just  large 
enough  to  contain  a  single  family,  and  the  humblest  furniture,  nothing 
more  than  is  barely  necessary;  here  are  spacious  habitations  consisting 
of  different  buildings,  at  some  distance  from  eacli  other,  surrounded 
with  plantations  that  extend  beyond  the  reach  of  the  eye,  cultivated  not 
by  the  hands  of  freemen,  but  by  those  unhappy  blacks  whom  European 
avarice  and  injustice  has  taken  from  their  native  regions  of  Africa  to 
cultivate  possessions  not  their  own,  in  a  foreign  soil.  The  furniture  here 
is  constructed  out  of  the  most  costly  kind  of  wood  and  the  most  valuable 
marble,  enriched  by  the  elegant  device  of  the  artist's  hand.  Their  riding 
machines  are  light  and  handsome  and  drawn  by  the  fleetest  coursers 
managed  by  slaves  richly  dressed.  This  opulence  was  particularly  ob- 
servable at  Annapolis."  {Robin's  New  Travels  Through  North  America 
in  the  Year  1781.) 


42  William  axd  Mary  College  Quarterly.  i 

Numerous  laws  were  passed  on  the  subject  of  the  roads  during 
and  since  the  colonial  days.  There  was  never,  in  fact,  any  lack  of 
roads  in  Virginia  at  any  time.  They  interlaced  all  parts  of  the 
country.  The  temptation  then  as  now  was  to  have  too  many 
roads,  and  the  expense  of  maintaining  them  proved  too  much  for 
the  scattered  population  of  the  country.    Travelling  in  Virginia  , 

before  the  Eevolution  was  very  good  nine  months  of  the  year,  as  ] 

it  is  now,  but  in  the  winter  months  the  roads,  owing  to  the  rains  1 

and  ice,  were  generally  very  bad.     Of  course,  there  were  some  \ 

roads  that  kept  good  all  the  year  round,  as  for  instance  the  roads  3 

from  Yorktown  to  Williamsburg  and  Hampton,  which  a  traveller  \ 

in  1746  pronounced  better  than  anything  in  England.     Thus  to  1 

quote  a  passage  from  this  writer :  | 

"The  most  considerable  houses   [in  Yorktown]   are  of  brick,  some  ] 

handsome  ones  of  wood,  all  built  in  the  modern  taste,  and  the  lesser  sort  ] 

of  plaister.    There  are  some  very  pretty  garden  spots  in  the  to'^vTi,  and  '^ 

the   avenues   leading  to   Williamsburg,   Xorfolk,   etc.,   are   prodigiously  •  | 

agreeable.    The  roads  are,  as  I  said  before,  some  of  the  best  I  ever  saw,  t 

and  infinitely  superior  to  most  in  England.    The  country  surrounding  is  ^ 

thickly  overspread  with  plantations,  and  the  planters  live  in  a  manner  I 

-equal  to  men  of  the  best  fortune,  some  of  them  being  possessed  of  500  or  f 

1000  a  year  sterlins:."  ^  I 


^  "An  Itinerant's  Observations  in  America."  {London  Magazine, 
1746.) 

^  In  these  inscriptions  the  lettering  on  the  tombstones  is  literally  fol- 
lowed. 

'Richard  Haynie  married  a  second  time,  and  died  about  1724.  In  his 
will  of  Oct.  31,  1734,  he  names  six  sons — Bridgar,  Eichard.  McMillcn, 


EAKLY  TOMBSTO^^ES  IX  XORTHUMBERLAXD  | 

C0UNTY.2  I 

In  an  abandoned  grave-yard  on  the  eastern  edge  of  the  village  | 

of  Heathsville  Lies  a  heavy  slab  inscribed  as  follows :  I 

HERE  LYETII  THE  BODY  OF  I 

ELIZABETH  HAYNIE  DAUGHTER  ^^  I 

OF  RICHARD  &  JAXE  BRIDGAR 

WAS  BORN  JULY  16^^  1GG5 

MARRIED  TO  RICHARD  HAYNIE  ' 

OCTOBER  10^^  1681  BY  WHOM  SHE 

HAD  8  CHILDREN  &  DIED  HIS 

WIFE  APRIL  2       1097. 


William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  43 

On  the  margin  of  CocFs  creek,  near  the  seat  of  "Northumber- 
land House,"  where  the  Preslys  and  Thorntons  long  resided,  the 
handsome  tomb  of  Hon.  Presly  Thornton^  lies  in  broken  pieces, 
and  only  a  fragment  of  the  inscription  is  to  be  found.  The  fol- 
lowing words  are  all  that  appear  on  the  pieces  of  stone  remain- 
ing: 

With 

Sea      in  the 

County  of 
his  merit 
ntil  he  was  in 

One  of  the  Council  of  State 

for  this  Colony     , 

These  important  stations  he  filled 

to  the  Publick  emolu(ment) 

And  his  o-wn  reputa(tion) 

Having  thus  enjoyed  the  Chief  Honors 

of  bis  Country 

He  departed  this  Life 

The  8^'^  Day  of  December  (1769) 

in  the  48^^  Year  of  his  (Age). 

Near  to  the  above  mutilated  tomb  are  two  headpieces  marking 

the  graves  of  a  Eevolutionary  patriot-  and  his  faithful  wife,  who 

came  to  Northumberland  from  Philadelphia.     The  inscriptions 

are  as  follows: 

In  Memory  of 

Col.  James  iloore, 

an  officer  of 

the  revolutionary  army, 

Who  departed  "'■■his 

life  May  20^^  1813 

Aged  56  years. 

Ormsby,  Charles  and  Samuel ;  also  four  daughters — Katharine,  Elinor, 
Winifred  and  Anna.    His  wife  ''Elinor''  survived  him. 

^The  will  of  the  Hon.  Presly  Thornton  (prob.  May  14,  1770)  name? 
his  sons  Peter  Presly  and  Presly:  also  three  daughters — Elizabeth, 
Winifred  and  Charlotte.  A  full  inventory  of  his  personal  estate  is  pre- 
served among  the  Northumberland  records. 

'  Col.  Moore  was  survived  by  a  large  family  of  children,  but  his 
^ughters  only  left  descendants.  They  intermarried  with  the  Towleses, 
Bateses,  Hudualls,  Shepherds,  Tapscotts  and  Hulls. 


4:4:  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  Yk 

f 

In  Memory  of 

Sarah  Moore, 

relict  of 

Col.  James  Moore, 

AYho  departed  this 

life  Dec.  1^^  1814 

Aged  47  years. 

On  the  margin  of  HulFs  creek,  near  the  old  Chicacohan  resi-  | 

dence,  the  aforetime  clerk  of  Northumberland,  who  married  the  | 

daughter  of  the  above  Col.  Moore,  lies  buried  in  a  grave  marked  I 

by  a  vertical  slab,  on  which  is  this  inscription :  I 

SACRED  I 

to  the  memory  of  | 

FLEMIXG  BATES  ^  •     | 

Who  departed  this  life  i 

Dec.  26,  1830,  | 

in  the  53nd  year  of  his  age.  I 

"  He  needs  no  epitaph  whose  f 

life  was  a  constant  blessing  | 

to  all  within  his  sphere  of  j 

action.  t 


Near  Burgess'  Store,  on  the  margin  of  a  field  opposite  the 
residence  of  Dr.  Sydnor,  a  massive  slab  appears  partly  imbedded 
in  the  earth.    The  inscription  reads : 

Here  lies  the  body 

of  THOMAS  GILL^  who 

departed  this  life  the  12*^ 

,  day  of  November,  1739, 

in  the  60*^  year  of  his 

Age. 

^Fleming  Bates  ^Yas  son  to  Thomas  Fleming  Bates  and  Caroline  Ma- 
tilda Woodson,  of  Fluvanna,  and  brother  of  the  Hon.  Edward  Bates,  of 
Missouri,  Attorney-General  under  President  Lincoln. 

'  A  Thomas  Gill's  will  is  on  record  in  Northumberland,  probated  Feb. 
10,  1707-8.  In  it  he  names  his  sons  William  and  Thomas,  and  daughters 
Dinah,  Susanna  Robinson  and  Frances  Waddin^ton. 


William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  45 

In  the  rear  of  the  spot  on  which  the  Upper  St.  Stephens 
church  stood  in  Colonial  days,  and  not  far  from  the  Glebe  man- 
sion, which  is  still  standing,  an  upright  slab  commemorates  one 
of  the  last  century  clergymen,  as  follows : 

IN 

Memory  of  the  late  Rev'd 

Duncan  McjSTaughton,  a  native 

of  Perthshire,  Scotland, 

Who  departed  this  life  May  IG^^  1809, 

in  the        year  of  his  age. 
The  stranger's  friend  lies  here  at  rest 

In  this  cold  silent  grave. 

We  trust  that  with  the  rising  just 

He'll  resurrection  have. 

On  ^'Cypress  Farm"  at  the  head  of  Garner's  creek,  near  the 
site  of  the  early  Keene  residence,  two  heavy  slabs  are  to  be  seen, 
one  of  them  partly  overgrown  by  a  large  persimmon  tree.  One 
of  them  has  this  inscription: 

Here  lyeth  the  body  of 

William  Keene,  the  Eldest  Son 

of  Thomas  and  Mary  Keene 

t  Born  in  Kent  in  Maryland 

the  10*^  day  of  March  anno 

Dom.  164:2,  Who  marryed 

Eliz%  the  Daughter  of  John 

Eogers  Gent,  and  Ellin  liis 

Wife  of  Northumberland  Co. 

in  Virginia  by  Whome  he  had 

two  Sons  and  Four  daughters 

And  dyed  j^  8  day  of  Feb. 

1684  in  y®  two  and  Fortieth 

year  of  his  Age. 

The  other  tomb,  lying  near  by  the  above,  shows  lettering  re- 
markably clear  and  distinct^  as  follows : 


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HERE  LYETH  THE  BODY 

% 

DAY.  AXXO  DOM.  1G42 
AXD  SERVED  Seven  Years  au 

o 

O 

Apprentice  to  M"".  Wallistone  Merch* 

in  Soutlmnipton.    And  after  came  into 
Verginia,  wliere  he  married  three 

> 

o 

Wives  the  last  of  which  he  tooke 

to  Wife  Eliz^  ^  the  Relict  of  William 

1 

[veene^  dcc^d,  daughter  of 

O 

l-'-i 

m 

John  Rogers  Gent,  and  Ellin  his 
Wife  of  Northumberland  County  in 

H-l 

Verginia.    Was  marryed  the  8  day 
Df  december  1G87  and  dved  the 

H 
S 
t^' 

W 

20  of  September.  Anno  Dom. 

C 

o 

§ 

o 

§ 

Xfl 

1697  In  the  56  I'ear  of  his  age. 

as  also  these  two  Versers.    As  I  in 

^ 

Sorrow  for  thee  have  been  distrest. 
If  God  Permit  Me  Lye  by  thee  to  rest. 

§ 

O 

i 

)  ^ 

> 

ajix\i  siH  iHXYMoa  axY  XKa£ 

^Mts.  Elizabeth  Banks,  after  enduring  two  widowhoods,  died  in  1722 
(will  probated  March  15,  1722).  Her  sons  by  Wm.  Keene  were  William 
and  John.  Her  daughter  Hannah  married  Col.  John  Bushrod,  of  Bush- 
field,  in  Westmoreland.    Elizabeth  married Lee.    Another  daughter 

married  Samuel  Samford,  and  the  fourth  daughter  married  John  Wood- 
bridge.  Her  father,  Major  John  Rogers,  was  an  early  settler  in  Xorth- 
umberland,  and  long  served  as  one  of  the  justices.  A.  small  creek  tribu- 
tary to  Hull's  creek  is  still  known  by  the  name  of  Rogers,  the  plantation 
and  home  of  the  early  justice  having  been  on  its  banks.  It  seems  very 
probable  that  Elizabeth  Keene  was  the  wife  of  Charles  Lee,  youngest  son 
of  the  immigrant  Richard  Lee. 


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On  the  margin  of  an  arm  of  the  Yeocomico  in  Cherry  Point, 
near  the  old  Cox  homestead,  a  broken  horizontal  slab  bears  the 
folloudng  words : 

Here  Lieth  the  Body  of 

PETER  COX  (Son  of 

PETER  COX)  who  was  Born 

July  10^^  in  the  Year  of  our  Lord 

17-14 

And  departed  this  Life  Islaj  G^^ 

1792 

In  the  48^^  year  of  His  Age. 

He  was  in  Principle  ^Moderate 

Calvinist,  By  Profession  a  Paptist,  And  . 

In  Life  and  Conversation  a  Real 

Christian. 
In  solemn  silence  let  him  lie 
Nor  dare  disturb  his  Dust 
Till  the  Archangel  rend  the  sky 
And  wakes  the  sleeping  Dust. 
This  monument  in  memory  of  the 
Dec'd  was  Reared  by  his  Widow 

JANE  COX,  Daughter  of 

WILLIAM  HARDIXG,  who  was 

Born  September  22nd,  1746. 


CHURCHILL  FAMILY. 

{Continued  from  ToL  VIL,  page  136.) 
"Bushy  Park,"  the  home  of  Col.  Churchill,  is  situated  on  the 
Rappahannocl',  in  ^Middlesex  county.  On  the  map  of  Jefferson 
and  Fty,  published  in  1751,  it  appears  as  "Churchill."  It  doubt- 
less got  its  name  from  ''Bushy  Park"  on  the  Thames,  the  elegant 
country  seat  (in  1798)  of  his  Royal  Highness  the  Duke  of  Clar- 
ence, 

Elizabeth  (Armistead)  Churchill,  widow  of  Col.  William 
Churchill,  died  X"ov.  11,  1716.  Her  will  \vas  dated  X'ov.  9,  1716, 
and  was  proved  Jan.  1,  1716-'17.  It  names  son-in-law  Mann 
Page,  grandson  Ralph  Page,  son  to  Mann  Page;  son  John 
Wormely,   son  Armistead   Churchill,  dau.   Priscilla   Churchill, 


48  William  axd  Mary  College  Quarterly.  | 

dau.  Elizabeth  Churchill,  gr.  child.  Elizabeth  and  Ralph,  children  | 

of  John  Wormely,  cousins  Judith  and  Catherine  Robinson;   de-  ■ 

sires  Mr.  Bartholomew  Yates  [minister  of  Christ  Church,  Mid- 
dlesex county,  afterwards  Professor  of  Divinity  in  William  and 
Mary  College,  and  father  of  William  Yates,  President  of  the 
College]   *^*to  instruct  my  son  Armistead  in  his  own  house  in  » 

Latin  and  Greek."  j 

4,  Armistead-  Churchill  (William^),  born  at  "Rosegill"  [the  ] 

home  of  the  Wormeleys  on  the  Rappahannock]  July  25,  ITO-i,  i 

and  baptized  by  Rev.  Mr.  Yates  on  August  1st  following,  was  5 

justice  of  the  peace,  Colonel  of  the  militia,  and  Collector  for  Rap-  | 

pahannock  river.     He  married  Hannah  Harrison,  dau.  of  Col.  | 

Nathaniel  Harrison,  of  Wakefield,  Surry  county.   (See  will  of  f 

Col.  Xathaniel  Harrison,  proved  in  Surry  county  February  21,  i 

1727.)  He  had  issue,  7,  William^  of  "Wilton,"  on  the  Pianke- 
tank;  8,  John^  b.  Dec.  23,  1728;  9,  XathanieP,  b.  June  16,  1730, 
died  Dec.  21,  1730;    10,  Henry^  who  died  of  pleurisy  Dec.  24,  i  - 

1760;    11,  Armistead'-^,  b.  Isoy.  25,  1733;    12,  Benjamin^  who  I 

made   a   deed  to  his   brother  William  in  1772,  sealed  with  the  | 

Churchill  coat-of-arms    (original   at   Middlesex   Court-house) ;  } 

13,  Mary^  who  m.  John  Armistead  in  1749  (lY.  p.  US)  and  had  | 

Churchill  Armistead,  who  m.  Betsy  Boswell  in  1775   (YII.  p.  \ 

182);    14,  Lucy^  b.  Jan.,  1737-^"38,  married,  Dec,  1756,  Col.  \ 

John  Gordon,  of  Urbanna  (lY.,  p.  19),  younger  brother  of  Col.  f 

James  Gordon,  one  of  the  most  cultivated  men  of  his  times;   15,  i 

Priscilla^,  who  m.  first  in  1759  Richard  Spann,  secondl}',  in  Feb.,  | 

1765,  Williamson  Ball;  16,  Judith^,  born  Xov.  21,  1743,  m.  first  ? 

Churchill  Jones,  Xov.  11,  1769,  secondly  John  Blackburn  (Hay-  \ 

den)  ;  17,  Hannah^  bom  Sept.  4, 1748 ;  18,  Betty^  born  in  1751, 
m.  Major  William  Jones,  of  Spotsylvania.  The  deposition  of- 
Betty  Jones,  aged  62,  was  taken  1813  at  the  house  of  William  | 

Jones,  of  Spotsylvania  in  chancery  suit  "Carter  B.  Berkeley, 
exor.  of  Edmund  Berkeley  vs.  Roger  Blackburn,  exor.  of  Church- 
ill Blackburn."  In  this  suit  there  is  a  bond  of  Churchill  Black- 
bum,  as  sheriff  of  King  William  county,  with  Pauline  Blackburn 
as  security. 

The  Virginia  Gazette  for  Sept.  21,  1776,  has  a  notice  of  the 
death  of  "'Mrs.  Hannah  Churchill,  of  Bushv  Park  in  Middlesex 
county,  relict  of  Armistead  Churcliill,  Esq.,  in  the  70th  year  of 


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her  age."  The  will  of  Hannah  Churchill,  Jr.,  was  proved  in 
Middlesex,  May  23,  1774,  and  she  leaves  legacies  to  Sarah  Gor- 
don and  James  Gordon,  dau.  and  son  of  John  and  Lucy  Gordon 
and  to  Churchill  Jones,  of  Fauquier.  Witnesses,  Wm.  Jones  and 
Ro.  Layton. 

The  following  is  the  will  of  Col.  Armistead  Churchill,  as 
recorded  at  the  Court-house : 

}yiU  of  Armistead  Churchill. 

In  the  name  of  God,  Amen.  I,  Armestead  Churchill,  of  the  county  of 
Middlesex,  in  the  Colony  of  Virginia,  being  in  perfect  mind  and  under- 
standing, do  make  this  my  last  will  and  testament.  In  the  first  place,  I 
desire  all  my  just  debts  may  be  paid  by  my  executors  hereafter  named, 
that  is  my  beloved  sons,  William  Churchill,  John  Churchill,  Henry 
Churchill  and  Armestead  Churchill,  and  if  my  debts  can  be  paid  without 
selling  my  tract  of  land  in  Prince  William  county,  my  will  and  desire  is 
that  it  should  [be]  divided  as  follows:  My  son  John  Churchill  to  have 
2000  acres,  my  son  Armestead  Churchill  2000  acres,  my  son  Benj. 
Churchill  2000  acres,  my  son  Henry  400  acres,  if  he  should  choose  to 
live  there,  and  the  remainder  of  the  tract  to  be  equally  divided  between 
my  daughters,  that  is  to  say,  Hannah,  Lucy,  Priscilla,  Judith  and 
Betty.  In  testimony  hereof  I  have  sett  my  hand  and  affixed  my  seal 
this  twenty-first  day  of  August,  1758.     (Proved  August,  1763.) 

7.  Col.  William^  Churchill  (Armistead^,  William^),  horn 
Feb.  24, 1726, was  for  many  years  clerk  of  Middlesex  Co.  He  lived 
at  a  place  in  Middlesex  on  the  Planhetank,  called  "Wilton,'^  op- 
posite to  '^^indsor,''  the  home  of  the  Claytons,  which  was  situ- 
ated on  the  other  side  of  the  Planlcetanh,  in  Gloucester  county. 
The  house  has  the  form  of  a  T,  being  a  building  of  two  stories, 
with  four  rooms  to  a  story.  On  a  brick  in  the  outside  wall  is  cut 
in  large  figures  the  year  of  its  erection — 1762.  In  1760  Col. 
Gordon  noted  in  his  diary  that  ^*Col.  Churchill's  house  with  all 
its  contents'  had  been  destroyed  by  fire."  This  probably  had 
reference  to  "Bushy  Park,"  and  ^^^ilton"  was  probably  built  as 
a  result.  "^Wilton  House''  in  England  was  the  magnificent  coun- 
try seat  of  the  Earls  of  Pembroke,  in  which  was  a  superb  collec- 
tion of  pictures,  statuary,  etc.  In  King  George  county  is  re- 
corded the  marriage  contract  of  William  Churchill,  "son  and 
heir  apparent  of  Armistead  Churchill,  with  Betty  Carter,  eldest 
daughter  of  Charles  Carter,  of  'Cleve,'  '*  dated  June  7,  1751.  By 
his  will  Charles  Carter  gave  each  of  his  daughters  £1000  current 


50  William  and  Mauy  College  Quarterly. 

money  at  his  death  in  17G4.     CoL  Churchill  married  secondly 

Elizabeth ,  who  survived  him.    Ilis  will  was  dated  !May  15, 

1782,  and  was  proved  in  Middlesex  county  April  22,  HOO.  In 
it  he  names  son  Thomas  and  five  da  us.,  Hannah,  Betty  Carter, 
Priseilla,  Sarah  and  Lucy  Harrison;  to  Sarah  and  Lucy  Har- 
rison two  negroes  that  came  by  my  wife  Elizabeth  (second  wife) ; 
if  son  Thomas  should  die  without  an  heir,  then  my  land  shall  be 
equally  divided  between  the  sons  of  my  brothers  John  and  Armis- 
tead  Churchill,  they  paying  my  daus.  each  of  them  2000  pounds, 
and  if  they  do  not  choose  to  take  the  land  on  these  terms,  then 
if  my  son  should  die,  the  land  must  be  equally  divided  between 
all  my  daus.,  except  200  acres  which  I  have  given  to  my  brother 
Ben  Churchill;  makes  exors.  of  his  will  Edmund  Berkeley, 
Philip  Ludwell  Grymes  and  Ealph  Wormeley,  Esqs.  ,f 

Issue  of  William  Churchill  by  his  first  "wife  Elizabeth  Carter : 
19,  Hannah^  who  m.  Benjamin  Robinson  Oct.,  1T71;  20,  Bettv-^ 
Carter,  who  married  Eev.  James  Maury  Fontaine  (born  173S) 
in  Dec,  1777  {Quarterly,  YIL,  p.  193);    21,  Priseilla*.     Issue 

by  second  wife  Elizabeth  ,  daughter  of  .    22 

Thomas  £'.*;  23,  Sarah*,  who  died  unmarried  in  1799,  leaving 
legacies  to  her  ^'mother  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Churchill,"  her  brother 
Thomas  Churchill  and  half-sister  Hannah  Ptobinson,  and  to  her 
niece  Elizabeth  Churchill  Derby  (under  age),  and  to  Mrs.  Lucy 
Derby,  her  niece's  mother  and  John  Derby,  her  father;  21:,  Lucy 
Harrison*,  who  m.  John  Derby  (his  first  wife),  and  had  Eliza  C. 
Derby,  bom  Xov.  7,  1795. 

1  Elizabeth  Spotswood,  by  her  will  dated  July  11,  17S2,  and 
proved  Jan  2i,  1791,  gave  legacies  to  Sarah  and  Lucy  Harrison 
Churchill,  and  divided  all  her  cattle  between  Priseilla,  Sarah  and 
Lucy  Harrison  Churchill,  daus.  of  William  Churchill,  Esq. 

Thomas  E.*  Churchill  (William^  Armistead-,  William^), 
married  on  May  28,  1801,  Eliza  B.  Berkeley,  dau.  of  Edmund 
Berkeley,  Esq.,  of  ^'Barn  Elms,''  adjoining  ^"Wilton."  He  had 
issue,  one  child,  Eliza]3eth  Edmonia.  He  married  secondly  Lucy 
Burwell  Lilly,  who  survived  him,  and  was  second  wife  of  Jolin 
Derby.    Iso  issue  by  her.  I 

{To  he  Continued.)  I 


William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  51 

WILL  OF  JOIK  TIIRUSTOX,  CH.UEBERLAIX, 

OF  BRLSTOL.^ 

Quarterly,  IV.,  23,  110,  180;   V.,  44,  120;   VI.,  13;   VII.,  130. 

[Extracted  from  the  Principal  Registry  of  the  Probate  Divorce  and 
Admiralty  Division  of  the  High  Court  of  Justice,  in  the  Prerogative 
Court  of  Canterbury.] 

IX  THE  XAME  OF  GOD,  AMEX,  I  JOIIX  THRUSTOX, 

of  the  Citty  of  Bristoll,  sopemaker,  being  sicke  and  weake  in 
body,  but  of  sound  and  perfect  mind  and  memory,  thanks  be 
given  to  almighty  God,  therefore  Doe  make  my  last  will  and  tes- 
tament in  m^anner  and  forme  following  (that  is  to  say),  First 
and  Principally,  I  commend  my  soule  into  the  hands  of  Almighty 
God,  my  most  mercifull  Father  and  Creator  hopeing  to  be  saved 
by  the  onely  meritts,  death  and  passion  of  Jesus  Christ  my  alone 
Saviour  and  Redeemer,  And  my  body  I  comitt  to  the  earth, 
"vVhence  it  came  To  bo  laid  in  Christian  buriall  in  the  Church- 
yard of  the  Parish  Church  of  St.  Thomas  in  Bristoll,  as  neare 
on  the  Southside  of  the  Graue  of  my  late  wife  there  buried  as 
conveniently  may  be.  And  it  is  my  desire  to  !Mary  my  now  deare 
and  loueing  wife  That  when  it  shall  please  Almighty  God  to  take 
her  away  by  death  her  body  may  be  buried  there  on  the  South 
Side  of  my  graue  And  as  touching  such  worldly  estate  as  it  hath- 
pleased  God  to  lend  me  in  this  life  I  dispose  thereof  as  followeth 
(to  witt)  Imprimis  I  do  giue,  devise  and  bequeath  vnto  my  hon- 
oured and  good  friends  John  Knight  Esquire  (one  of  the  Alder- 
men of  the  Citty  of  Bristoll)  and  Robert  Aldworth  of  the  same 
Citty  Esquire  And  to  their  heires  and  assignes  All  those  my  mes- 
suages, lands,  tenements  and  hereditaments  with  all  and  singular 
their  and  every  of  their  appurtenances  scituate  lying  and  being 
att  Rudgeway-  in  the  Parish  of  Stapleton  or  elsewhere  in  the 
county  of  Glouc.  To  be  had  and  holden  vnto  them  the  said  John 
Ejiight  and  Robert  Aldworth  theire  heirs  and  assigns  for  ever 
To  the  onely  use  and  behoof  e  of  them  the  said  John  Knight  and 
Robert  Aldworth  and  of  their  heires  and  assignes  forevermore 
Vpon  this  hope  trust  and  confidence  in  them  the  said  John 
Knight  and  Robert  Aldworth  by  mee  reposed  That  they  the  said 

^  He   was   father   of   the   Virginia   emigrants    Malachi    and   Edward 
Thruston. 


52  William  axd  Mary  College  Quarterly.  I 

John  Knight  and  Ptobert  Aldworth  and  the  survivor  of  them  and  ^ 
his  heires  shall  and  will  with  all  the  convenient  speed  after  my  » 
decease  grannt  alien  sell  away  dispose  and  convey  to  any  person  I 
or  persons  who  shall  be  willing  to  buy  or  purchase  the  same  or  ■- 
any  part  thereof  to  his  or  their  heires  and  assigns  for  ever  All  or  }. 
any  the  same  messuages,  lands,  tenements  and  hereditaments  and  . 

every  or  any  part  or  parcell  thereof  att  and  for  the  most  money  j 
fine  or  consideracon  they  can  gett  for  same  And  it  is  my  will  and  ^ 
meaning  that  all  person  and  persons  who  is  or  are  any  way  in-  ■: 

trusted  with  any  terme  or  termes  of  years  interest  or  interests  f 

of  or  upon  the  same  lands  or  any  part  thereof  for  the  use  of  me  | 
my  heires,  executors,  administrators  or  assigns  or  otherwise  shall  * 

from  time  to  time  make  such  grants,  assignements  and  convey-  f 

ances  of  such  their  terme  or  termes  interest  or  interests  To  or  to  | 

the  use  of  such  person  or  persons  who  shall  buy  or  purchase  the  « 

same  lands  or  any  part  or  parcel  thereof  And  my  will  and  mean-  i 

ing  further  is  that  all  person  and  persons  who  is  or  are  now  in-  ^ 

trusted  "v\ith  any  such  terme,  termes  or  interest  or  interests  shall  | 

untill  such  purchase  made  stand  possessed  and  interessed  or  and  ^ 

in  the  same  premises  to  and  for  the  only  use  benefit  and  behoofe 
of  the  said  John  Knight  and  Eobert  Aldworth  their  heires  and  ^ 

assignes  To  the  uses  and  upon  the  trusts  aforesaid  And  that  the 
same  term  or  termes  interest  or  interests  shall  not  be  nor  be  taken  | 

deemed  or  construed  to  be  assetts  of  my  estate  Item  I  doe  will 
de\ise  and  bequeath  That  after  the  said  lands  in  Stapleton  | 

shalbe  soe  sold  The  moneys  ariseing  by  the  sale  thereof  shall  be  4 

by  the  said  John  Knight  and  Eobert  Aldworth  and  the  sur- 
vivor of  them  and  his  heires  pay  over  to  such  person  and  persons  j 
by  such  parts  and  parcells  and  in  such  manner  and  forme  as  is  i 
herein  after  menconed  and  sett  downe  (That  is  to  say)  my  will  ' 
and  meaning  is  That  after  all  my  debts  and  sume  and  sumes  of  ? 
money  by  me  oweing  for  or  with  the  payment  whereof  the  said  .  ( 
messuages,  lands  and  tenements  or  any  part  thereof  are  or  do  ^ 
stand  charged  chargeable  or  lyable  shall  be  fully  satisfied  and  t 
paid  there  shall  be  out  of  the  same  purchase  money  to  And  I  soe  ( 
hereby  give  and  bequeath  vnto  the  said  Mary  my  deare  and  loue-  I 
ing  wife  to  her  owne  use  the  sum  of  one  hundred  pounds  of  law-  f 
full  money  of  England  Item  out  of  the  same  purchase  money  I 
doe  giue  and  bequeath  vnto  my  eldest  sonne  Malachy  Thruston 


Willia:m  and  Mart  C'ollege  Quahterly.  53 

the  Slime  of  fifty  pounds  of  lawfull  money  of  England  if  he  shall 
be  lieuing  att  the  time  of  my  decease  the  same  to  be  paid  unto 
him  within  six  moneths  next  after  his  return  from  Virginia 
(where  he  is  now  resident)  into  England  which  sum  of  fifty 
pounds  I  doe  declare  shalbe  and  is  in  full  of  what  he  must  or  may 
expect  to  haue  out  of  my  estate  for  that  I  haue  before  this  time 
given  him  two  hundred  pounds  at  least  And  besides  he  hath 
proved  vndutifull  vnto  me  in  rcfuseing  to  returne  home  ac- 
cording to  my  severall  commands  And  I  doe  declare  my  will  to  be 
that  the  same  legacie  of  fifty  pounds  to  my  said  sonne  Malachy 
shall  cease  and  be  not  paid  him  unles  he  first  giue  release  of  such 
right  as  he  may  clayme  to  my  said  lands  in  Stapleton  To  my  said 
trustees  and  their  heires  or  to  such  person  or  persons  who  shall 
purchase  the  same  or  any  part  thereof  as  by  Councel  learned  in 
the  Lawe  shalbe  thought  reasonable  and  necessary  Item  out  of 
the  same  purchase  money  I  doe  giue  and  becjueath  vnto  my  sonne 
Edward  Thrust  on  the  sume  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  of 
lawfull  money  of  England  Item  I  doe  declare  my  will  and  mean- 
ing to  be  That  the  same  some  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  by 
me  given  to  my  sonne  Edward  as  aforesaid  shalbe  together  with 
his  wives  portion  ariseing  and  going  out  of  her  lands  on  Bourton 
in  the  county  of  Berks  and  Great  Marlow  in  the  county  of  Bucks 
layed  out  in  the  buying  and  purchasing  of  messuages,  lands  or 
tenements  to  be  settled  and  assured  to  and  for  the  benefitt  of 
my  said  sonne  Edward  and  his  said  wife  and  children  in  such 
manner  as  by  certaine  articles  made  before  their  intermarriage 
is  directed  lymitted  and  appointed  And  I  doe  declare  my  will 
to  be  that  vntill  such  bu}dng  or  purchasing  the  same  one  hundred 
and  fifty  pounds  shalbe  secured  for  the  same  purpose  by  the  said 
John  Knight  and  Eobert  Aldworth  or  the  survivor  of  them  his 
executors  or  -administrators  letting  out  the  same  att  interest  as 
to  them  shall  seeme  meete  And  the  interest  thereof  onely  to  be 
paid  to  the  said  Edward  and  his  wife  Item  I  doe  declare  that  the 
same  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  shalbe  and  is  in  full  satisfac- 
tion of  all  that  he  the  said  Edward  shall  or  may  expect  to  haue 
out  of  my  estate  for  that  I  haue  before  this  time  given  liim  the 
some  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  shalbe  and  is  in  full  satis- 
faction of  all  that  he  tbe  said  Edward  shall  or  may  expect  to 
haue  out  of  my  estate  for  that  I  haue  before  this  time  given  him 


f 

54             William  and  Mary  College  Quarteri  | 

the  some  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  att  leas         m  I  doe  | 

out  of  the  same  purchase  money  of  Stapletou  giue        '  bequeath  , 

vnto  my  grandsonne  John  Thruston  (sonne  of  my  s-^.^  _3nne  Ed-  f 

ward  Thruston)  the  some  of  fifty  pounds  of  lawfull  money  of  ; 

England  To  be  putt  into  the  Chamber  of  Bristol!  for  the  use  of  | 

the  said  John  And  there  to  remain  att  interest  vntill  he  shall  at-  > 
taine  to  his  age  of  one  and  twenty  yeares  And  then  both  Princi- 
pal! and  interest  to  be  paid  to  him  And  I  doe  declare  my  will  to 
be  that  if  the  said  John  shall  dye  before  he  shall  attaine  to  the 

age  of  one  and  twenty  yeares  that  then  the  same  fifty  pounds  and  ; 

interest  shall  remaine  to  my  five  daughters  and  the  survivor  of  | 

them  Item  I  doe  give  and  devise  and  bequeath  vnto  my  five  t 

dau2:hters  Anne  Justine  Grace  Eachell  and  Sara  all  the  rest  and  ' 

residue  of  the  purchase  money  aforesaid  equally  to  be  devided  .J 
between  them  my  said  five  daughters  share  and  share  like  Item  I 
doe  giue  and  bequeath  vnto  my  wife  all  that  my  messuage  and 

tenement  with  the  appurtennces  wherein  I  now  dwell  scituate  in  f; 

Eedeliffe  Streete  in  the  parisli  of  St.  Thomas  witliin  the  said  \ 

Citty  of  Bristol!  To  hold  to  my  said  wife  for  her  naturall  life  And  I 
from  and  after  her  decease  I  doe  giue  and  bequeatli  the  same 
messuage  and  tenement  with  the  appurtenances  vnto  my  said 
three  daughters  Grace  Kacliell  and  Sara  (my  daughters  by  the 

said  Mary  my  now  wife)  for  their  naturall  lives  successiuely  one  | 

after  the  other  as  they  are  herein  named  To  be  had  and  holden  ^ 

vnto  my  said  three  daugliters  for  and  during  the  terme  of  their  '^ 

naturall  lives  successiuely  one  after  the  other  | 

{To  he  Continued.)  »' 


SEAWELL  FAMILY. 

(See  Quarterly  VII.,  p.  194.) 

Additional  information  makes  a  restatement  of  the  latter  part 
of  the  article  advisable. 

Joseph  Seawel!  (born  about  1710)  had  by  Elizabeth ^ 

(her  will  dated  Sept.  22,  1786),  at  least  three  children:  (1)  Jo- 
seph, (2)  John,  (3)  Sarah,  born  Sept.  30,  1746.    Of  these  John 

Seawell  married  Jane  Boswell,  widow  of  Thornton,  and 

dau.  of  Major  Tliomas  Boswell,^  and  had  an  only  son  (1)  John, 

^  The  Boswell  family  had  been  long  resident  in  Virginia.     Major 


William  and  Mary  College  QuAiixEnLY.  55 

born  February  G,  17G0,  and  three  daughters  (2)  Elizabetli,  who 
married  first  Col.  Thomas  Whiting,-  of  Gloucester  Town,  and 
secondly  Major  Samuel  Cary.  (3)  Jane,  who  m.  Capt.  William 
Yaughan,  (4)  Dolly,  who  married  John  Camp.  (Who  was  Doro- 
thy Churchill,  of  w^iom  Dr.  Thomas  Boswell  was  administrator 
in  Middlesex  county  in  1816  ?). 

Of  these  John  Seawell  m^arried  Fanny  Hobday,  dau.  of  Jolm 
and  Hannah  (Greene)  Hobday.  John  Hobday  was  manager  for 
Col.  Thomas  Whiting.    Fanny  Greene,  his  v/ife,  was  a  descendant 


Thomas  Boswell  was  probably  a  son  of  Joseph  and  Jane  Boswell,  of 
Gloucester.  They  had  a  son,  Benjamin  (a  family  name  in  the  Seawells), 
baptized  July  23,  1732.  Joseph  was  born  March  20,  1700,  and  was  the 
son  of  John  and  Phebe  Boswell,  who  had  also  Robert,  born  September 
11,  1698,  and  John,  baptized  ISIarch  ye  yth,  1G90.  The  wife  of  Major 
Boswell  was  probably  a  Machen,  a  family  resident  in  Middlesex  (pro- 
nounced "Mitchum"') . 

Major  Thomas  Boswell  had  at  least  two  children,  Dr.  Machen  Bosw^ell 
and  Jane,  wdio  married  John  Seawell.  Probably  ■Vlolly  Boswell,  who  ra. 
Churchill  Armistead  in  1775,  was  another  daughter.  Dr.  Machen  Bos- 
well left  a  will  dated  April  21,  1793,  and  proved  Jan.  13,  1794:  '"To  his 
son  Thomas  Boswell,  all  his  land  in  Mathews  county,  including  the  tract 
on  which  my  fatlier  now  lives;  my  lands  in  Kentucky,  4000  acres  to  be 
equiilly  divided  betw^een  my  three  children,  Elizabeth,  Martha,  Thomas; 
to  my  son  all  my  books,  except  the  books  my  daus.  have;  to  my  daus. 
one  negro  maid  each  of  their  own  age;  the  rest  of  my  personal  estate  to 
be  equally  divided;  the  guardians  of  my  children  to  attend  particularly 
to  their  education;  my  negro  estate  to  be  as  equally  divided  by  families 
as  possible.  Benjamin  Dabney,  of  King  and  Queen,  and  John  Seawell, 
of  Gloucester,  exors.  Proved  at  a  court  held  for  Mathews  county,  13 
Jan.,  1794,  to  be  the  handwriting  of  Machen  Boswell  by  the  oaths  of 
Mann  Page  and  Francis  Whiting.  Teste,  John  Cary,  CL  Cur."  ( See  suit 
of  Bosicell  vs.  Seawell,  Williamsburg  clerk's  office.  Young  Thomas  Bos- 
well studied  medicine  at  William  and  ]Mary  for  several  years,  and  in 
Europe  from  1S13  to  1815.  His  sister  Elizabeth  m.  first  Ralph  Wormely, 
and  secondly  Mr.  Carter  M.  Braxton.  His  sister  Martha  married  Mr. 
Roy. 

^  Chancery  papers  in  Williamsburg,  Loicrij  vs.  Cary,  show  that 
Thomas  Whiting,  who  married  Elizabeth  Seawell,  made  his  will^  Oct. 
15,  1780.  He  devised  certain  land  to  his  ''5  youngest  children,"  (1) 
Henry,  (2)  Horatio,  (3)  Susanna,  m.  first  Gibson  Cluverius  in  1786, 
and  second  John  Lowry  in  1792,  (4)  Jane,  (5)  Ann.  Of  these  Jane  mar- 
ried Mr.  Grymes ;  they  had  Charles,  in  the  na\-y,  and  Mary,  who  m.  Lewis 
Burwell.  Elizabeth  Seawell,  wife  of  Col.  Whiting,  married  secondly  Maj. 
Samuel  Cary. 


I 

56  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  | 

of  William  Howard,  an  early  settler  in  Gloucester  coLinty.  John 
Seawell  was  captain,  justice,  etc.,  of  Gloucester.  He  made  his 
will  in  1S03,  and  died  in  ISOG.    He  had  issue,  (1)  John  Boswell,  | 

born  July,  17S0,  educated  at  William  and  Mary,  was  a  prominent 
la\\7er,  etc.;  (2)  Sterling,  (3)  Fanny,  married  William  Ed- 
wards, and  had  issue:  William  Henry,  Capt.  John  A.  (born  Oct. 
8,  1806,  mar;  Frances  S.  P.  Murray),  Oscar  Edmund  (born 
May  4,  1809,  m.  ^Mary  Ann  Jones,  and  had  Capt.  Oscar  E.,  Wal- 
ter A.,  resident,  1899,  in  Norfolk,  John),  Albert  Sterling  (m. 
Maria  Louisa  Seawell  and  had  John,  Maria,  Albert  Sterling,  | 

present  clerk  of  Surry,  Boswell),  Overton  Walter,  Frances  Yir-  < 

ginia  (she  m.  Frank  M.  Armistead  and  had  Mary  Frances,  who  m.  : 

her  cousin  Fiobert  Travis  Armistead,  attorney  at  law  Williams-  | 

burg  1899),  Susan  W.,  Eliza  Jane,  in.  Eo_bert  Glenn^  Indiana,  | 

Anderwalta  Jackson.     (4z)  Courtney,  who  m.  Thomas  Cluverius, 
(5)  Overton,  (6)  Thomas  Machen,  (T)  Jane,  m.  Peyton  Bur- 
well,  of  ^lecklenburg  (see  Keith's  Ancestry  of  Benjamin  Harri- 
son) ;   (8)  Francis  Thornton,  (9)  Benjamin,  m.  Eebecca  Perrin ;  i 
(10)  Washington,  Brigadier-General,  U.  S.  A.  * 
John  Boswell  Seawell  married  on  Dec.  23,  1800,  Maria  Henry  ^ 
Tyler  at  Greenway,  in  Charles  City  county,  the  residence  of  her  ' 
father.  Gov.  John  Tyler.     She  was  but  sixteen  years  old.    Issue 
(1)  John  Tvler,  a  brilliant    orator    and    lawver,  married  first               '% 
Elizabeth  Hairston,  by  whom  Hairston  and  Louisa;   m.  second 
Frances  Elizabeth  Jackson,  by  whom  Mollie  Elliott  Seawell.  the  ^ 
authoress,  and  Henrietta   Seawell.      (2)    William,    (3)    Maria 
Louisa,  m.  her  cousin,  A.  S.  Edwards  above,  by  whom  among 
others  A.  S.  Edwards,  clerk  of  Surry  county;    (4)  Machen  Bos- 
well, an  able  and  eminent  lawyer,  m.  Mary  Louisa  Atkinson,  and  \ 
had  issue,  four  children,  viz. :    John,  Sarah  Contesse,  Charles, 
!Maria  Henry  Fdlen.      (5)   Sterling,   (6)   Wat  Washington,  m.  - 
Jane,  dau.  of  Thomas  Machen  Seawell,  his  uncle.     (7)  Joseph               | 
Armistead.                                                                                                          I 

Will  of  Mrs.  Elizaheth  Seawell 

In  the  name  of  God,  Amen.    I,  Elizabeth  Seawell,  being  old  and  weak,  i 

but  of  sound  mind,  memory  and  understanding,  d'o  make,  ordain  and  ap-  ? 

point,  this  to  be  my  last  will  and  testament,  that,  whereas  my  deceased  '^ 

husband,  Joseph  Seawell,  by  his  last  will,  gave  me  the  right  of  disposing  I 

of  half  my  dower    (lands  excepted)    at  my  death,  in  case  I  should  not  t 

marry,  to  whom  I  please.  I  do.  tlierefore,  dispose  of  t!ie  half  of  my  said  I 


dower  in  manner  and  form  followini?: 


\ViLLiAi\r  AND  Mary  College  Quarterly.  .57 

Item.  I  give  to  ray  granddaugliter  Elizabeth  Seawall  one  negro  wo- 
man named  Jinny,  with  her  future  increase,  except  the  first  child  she  has, 
which  said  child  I  give  to  my  granddaughter,  ]\[ary  Sea  well. 

Item.  I  give  to  my  grand-son  Jolin  Bosweli  Scawell  one  negro  boy 
named  Wilson,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever. 

Item.  I  give  to  my  grandson  John  Sea  well,  son  of  my  son  John,  one 
•negro  boy  named  Ralph,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever,  and  I  do  also  irive 
to  my  said  grandson  all  and  every  other  part  of  my  said  dower  and  all 
the  remainder  part  of  my  estate,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever. 

I  do  hereby  appoint  my  said  grandson  my  executor  to  this  my  last 
will.  In  witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  sot  my  hand  this  22d  day, 
Sept.,  1786. 

Signed,  sealed  and  delivered  in  the  presence  of  Richard  Coloman, 
Banr  Pii)en.  her 

Elizabeth  +  Seawell. 
mark. 

Will  of  Sterling  Tliornton. 
In  the  name  of  God,  Amen.  I,  Sterling  Thornton,  of  the  Pari-li  of 
Petsworth  and  county  of  Gloucester,  being  in  my  perfect  senses,  do  m.ike 
and  constitute  this  my  last  will  and  testament  in  manner  follo^ving:  Ivi- 
primis.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  son  John  Thornton  my  whole  estate, 
both  real  and  personal,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever,  but  in  case  my  son 
John  should  die  under  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  and  without  a  child 
or  children,  living  at  his  death,  then  my  will  and  desire  is  that  my  vv-hole 
estate  so  as  aforementioned  be  divided  equally  between  Watt  Cole,  half 
brother  to  my  son  John,  and  the  children  of  my  brother  John  Seawell, 
and  my  brother  Francis  Thornton,  whom  they  have  now,  that  is  to  say, 
oW-eighth  thereof  to  Watt  Cole,  three-eighths  between  the  children 
of  my  brother  John  Seawell,  by  name,  John,  Sterling  and  Francis,  and 
other  four-eighths  between  the  four  children  of  my  brother  Francis 
Tnomton,  by  name  James,  Elizabeth,  Ann  and  Francis,  to  them  and  their 
heirs  forever  as  tenants  in  common.  They,  the  said  Watt  Cole,  and  the 
children  of  my  brother  John  Seawell  and  Francis  Thornton,  paying,  and 
their  estates  above  given  to  be  chargeable  with  the  sum  of  one  hundred 
pounds  to  my  relation  Meaux  Thornton, and  twenty-five  pounds  to  each  of 
the  children  of  Capt.  William  Vaughn  and  Capt.  John  Camp,  whom  they 
havfe  had  by  the  daughters  of  ^Ir.  John   Seawell,  Sen^.,  but  if  either 

^  Sterling  Thornton  was  a  brother  of  Jane  Boswell's  first  husband. 
They  must  have  been  sons  of  William  Thornton  and  Jane  Clack,  of 
Brunswick  (see  Quarterly  IV.,  p.  158).  and  gfandsons  of  Francis  Thorn- 
ton, of  Gloucester,  great-grandsons  of  William  Inornton,  and  great- 
great-grandsons  of  William  Thornton,  the  emigrant  (see  Quarterly  IV., 
p.  90) .  The  Clacks  descend  from  James  Clack,  son  of  William  and  Mary 
Clack,  of  Marden,  Co.  Wilts,  England.  James  Clack  was  rector  of  Ware 
Parish,  Gloucester  county,  Va.,  forty-five  years,  dying  Dec.  20,  1723. 
iQuarterh,  III.,  p.  32.) 


58  WiLLTA:\r  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  | 

I 

of    the    children    of   my    brothers    John    Seawell    and    Francis    Thorn-  5 

ton   should   die   under   the   age   of   twenty-one   years,   and   without   a  * 

child  or  children,  living  at  his  or  her  death,  then  I  desire  and  will  the  l 

part  or  proportion  of  the  deceased  may  be  equally  divided  amongst  the 
survivors  and  their  heirs.  Item.  I  desire  that  my  executor  hereafter 
named  do  build  a  comfortable  house,  twelve  by  sixteen  feet,  for  my  negro  l 

woman  Gate  and  her  children  to  live  in,  and  that  it  be  placed  in  the  i 

peach  orchard  back  of  the  little  house  in  the  garden,  and  that  the  said  f 

Gate  be  annually  furnished  out'  of  my  estate,  with  two  hundred  weight  ^ 

of  good  pork,  salt  and  meal,  as  well  as  clothes,  and  it  is  my  will  that  the  \ 

said  Gate  may  never  be  compelled  to  work  unless  she  chooses  and  that  i 

she  may  be  found  fire  wood.     Item.  I  desire  that  the  old  woman  Leah  > 

shall  have  to  her  own  use  and  disposal,  one-half  the  money  she  may  earn  | 

as  a  midwife.    Item.    I  do  constitute  my  brother  John  Seawell  guardian  t 

to  my  son  John  Thornton.     Item.     I  desire  that  my  estate  be  kept  to-  t 

gether,  and  land  and  negroes  and  team  ,be  worked  as  usual  until  my  son  i 

arrives  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  years.    I  direct  that  my  executor  do  sell  \ 

my  studd  horse  Brilliant  and  my  old  gray  horse,  and  my  large  bay  mare  ' 

called  Phoenix.     Item.     I  do  direct  and  order  that  my  executor  here-  I 

after  named  may,  if  he  shall  see  it  advantageous,  sell  as  many  negroes 
or  personal  estate  as  he  shall  think  proper  to     purchase  lands  for  my  I 

son  John  and  his  heirs,  whicli,  if  he  doth,  I  desire  shall  be  in  all  respects  I 

under  the  like  limitations  and  restrictions  as  the  estate  above  devised.  I 

Lastly,  I  do  nominate  and  appoint  my  brother  John  Seawell  my  whole  ] 

and  sole  executor,  hereby  revoking  all  otlier  wills  by  me  heretofore  made.  ] 

I  do  constitute  this  my  bust  will  and  testament.     In  witness  whereof  I  ' 

have  hereto  set  my  hand  and  seal  this  28th  day  of  March,  1790.  ! 

Sterling  Thornton  ( Seal ) . 

Teste,  Ben.  Dabney,  Alice  Brodie,  Jane  Seawell. 

Recorded  April  6,  1790. 

Will  of  John  Seawell.  I 

In  the  name  of  God,  Amen.    I,  John  Seawell,  do  publish  and  declare  \ 

this  to  be  my  last  will  and  testament:    Imprimis.    I  lend  to  my  beloved  % 

wife  during  her  life  my  manor  plantation,  being  the  plantation  given  me  i 

by  my  father,  and  also  the  land  which  I  purchased  of  Gharles  Grymes,  ^ 

adjoining  Lewis  Williams  and  Wm.  Haywood,  together  with  the  tract  | 

of  land  which  I  purchased  of  Joseph  Seawell,  dec'd,  called  the  White-  1 

house  Tract.    I  aNo  lend  my  wife  during  her  life  one-third  of  my  negroes,  | 

with  the  right  of  disposing  at  her  death  of  one-fourth  part  thereof  to  i 

any  one  or  more  of  my  children.    I  also  give  her  to  dispose  of  as  she  may  | 

think  proper  the  negi-oes  which  came  by  her,  viz.,  a  negro  man  Arraistead  ;| 

and  two  boys,  Joe  and  Jim.    I  also  give  her  one-half  of  my  stock  of  sheep,  f 

cattle  and  hogs  which  are  on  the  plantation  on  which  I  live,  together  * 

with  my  chariott,  and  her  choice  of  six  horses,  excepting  the  horses  I 
which  I  shall  hereafter  dispose  of;    I  also  give  her  all  my  kitchen  furni- 


.     Willi a:m  and  ]\rARY  College  Quarterly.  59 

tiire.  The  above  devises,  legacies  and  bequests  I  f:^ive  her  in  bar  and  in 
lieu  of  dower.  In  addition  to  tlie  above  legacies  I  give  her  one-half  of  my 
hou^eliold  furniture,  wliich  she  may  take  in  such  articles  as  she  may 
choose  at  the  appraised  value.  Item.  I  give  to  my  son  John  B.  Seawell, 
during  the  life  of  my  wife,  the  land  which  I  purcliased  of  Horatio  S. 
Whiting,  and  at  the  death  of  my  wife,  I  giv^e  to  my  said  son  John,  to  him 
and  his  heirs  forever,  the  land  which  I  have  lent  my  wife  for  life;  I  also 
give  my  said  son  John  a  negro  man  named  Wilson,  and  also  a  negro  wo- 
man called  Molly,  and  her  cliildre-i  in  lieu  of  a  ner,'ro  of  his  which  I  -old, 
which  was  given  him  by  Sterling  Thornton;  I  also  give  him  my  riding 
horse,  a  mare  called  Poier  with  a  Knowesby  (  ?)  colt,  and  the  colt  from 
a  mare  called  Peg.  Item.  I  give  to  my  son  Sterling  Seawell,  to  him  and 
his  heirs  forever,  the  tract  of  land  which  I  purchased  of  Benjamin  Pol- 
lard, together  with  the  land  which  I  last  purchased  of  Joseph  Seawell, 
the  land  which  I  purchased  of  Samuel  Fairbanks,  and  the  land  called 
White's  Point;  I  also  give  him  a  negro  boy  called  Yellow  Billy;  I  also 
give  him  a  young  black  horse  and  a  mare  colt,  which  I  i)urchased  of 
Christopher  Pryor.  Item.  It  is  my  will  and  desire  that  my  plantation 
called  Hall's,  be  sold,  and  the  residue  of  my  personal  estate,  excepting 
negroes,  and  after  the  payment  of  all  my  just  debts,  it  is  my  will  and 
desire  that  my  whole  estate  be  divided  among  all  my  children,  except 
my  sons  John  and  Sterling  and  my  daughter  Frances,  who  are  to  have 
one-fourth  less  than  the  others,  they  being  already  provided  for  by  the 
legacies  which  were  given  them  by  Sterling  Thornton,  dec'd.  Item.  I 
give  my  wife  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds,  and  it  is  my  wash  that  in 
the  division  of  negroes  she  should  have,  if  she  thinks  proper.  Blacksmith 
Dick  and  his  wife  Lucy,  and  her  children,  my  negro  man  called  Doctor, 
and  a  negro  woman  called  Sary,  at  the  appraised  value,  which  negroes 
are  to  be  comprehended  among  those  which  I  have  given  her  and  lieu  of 
dower.  Item.  It  is  my  will  and  desire,  as  I  have  sold  a  tract  of  land  to 
Thomas  Catlett,  to  which  my  sons  John  and  Sterling,  and  my  daughter 
Frances,  were  entitled  under  the  will  of  Sterling  Thornton,  dec'd,  if  my 
said  sons  John  and  Sterling  and  my  daughter  Frances  do  not  release  ta 
the  said  Thos.  Catlett  all  their  right  and  title  in  and  to  the  said  land, 
then  and  in  that  case  he,  she  or  they,  so  refusing,  shall  have  no  part  of 
my  estate,  but  his,  her  or  their  shares  shall  be  equally  divided  among  the 
rest  of  my  children.  Item.  It  is  my  will  and  desire  that  if  either  of  my 
sons  John  or  Sterling  or  my  daughter  Frances  should  claim  anything  of 
my  estate  for  the  services  which  I  may  have  received  from  the  use  of 
their  negroes,  then  that  so  much  as  their  claim  or  claims  may  amount 
to  shall  be  deducted  from  the  estate  which  I  have  given  them  and  divided 
among  the  rest  of  my  children.  Item.  It  is  my  will  and  desire  that  each 
of  my  daughters  shall  be  at  liberty  to  choose  a  maid,  not  excee<ling 
twelve  years  of  age,  which  are  not  to  be  considered  in  the  portions  which 
I  have  above  given  them.  Item.  It  is  my  will  and  desire  that  my  wife 
should  have  a  sufficiency  of  corn  to  fatten  her  meat  and  for  use  the  en- 


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suing  year,  and  also  that  she  should  have  one-half  of  mv  top  fodder  and 
blades.  Item.  I  give  my  sons  John  and  Sterling  seventy-five  barrels  of 
corn  each,  and  the  balance  of  my  top  fodder  and  blades  to  be  equally 
divided  between  them.  Item.  It  is  my  will  and  desire  that  my  land  now 
in  corn,  which  I  purchased  of  Joseph  Sea  well  and  Benjamin  Pollard,  be 
sown  in  barley  and  that  the  crop,  when  made,  be  equally  divided  between 
my  wife  and  my  sons  John  and  Sterling  and  daughter  Frances.    Lastly. 

1  constitute  and  appoint  my  friend  Benjamin  Dabney  and  my  son  John 
B.  Sea  well  executors  of  this  my' last  will  and  testament  and  guardians  to 
my  children.  In  witness  whereof  I  hereunto  set  my  seal  this  10th  of  Sep- 
tember, 1803. 

John  Seawe£l   (JS). 

Signed,  sealed  and  acknowledged  as  his  last  will  and  testament  in  the 
presence  of  James  Trice,  John  West,  W.  C,  Catlett. 

Narrative  of  Mrs.  Maria  Edwards.- 

My  fatlier^s  family  resided  in  Gloucester  county,  Va.,  at  a  place  about    . 
five  miles  from  Gloucester  Town.     My  father's  great  uncle  Joseph  Sea- 
well  lived  on  the  tract  of  land  during  the  Revolutionary  war.     The  old   - 
servants  told  me  of  those  days.     His  brother  John,  who  was  my  great- 
grandfather, built  on  the  adjoining  tract.    He  built  first  on  Timber  Neck 
creek,  the  place  called  the  "White-house,"  which  still  bears  the  name.  | 

Here  there  was  a  handsome  house.    As  a  child,  my  father  took  me  there  f 

to  get  cherries  aud  English  walnut-.    This  house  was  burned  down,  just  | 

after  the  furniture  had  been  imported;    mirrors  thrown  out  of  the  win-  | 

dows,  etc.    This  was  told  me  by  an  old  servant,  who  followed  his  young  I 

master,  one  of  the  Cleaver  family,  to  Braddock's  defeat.    My  great-grand-  | 

father  then  built  the  house  in  which  I  was  born,  Gloucester  Place.     I  | 

forget  the  date,  but  before  the  Revolution.     His  wife  when  he  married  | 

her,  was  a  widow  Thornton.     IMy  father  remembered  her,  and  said  she  | 

was  handsome,  with  expressive  black  eyes.     He  bore  her  maiden  name,  I 

Boswell,  as  his  middle  name.     She  was  Jane  Boswell,  the  sister  of  Dr.  | 

Thomas  Machen  Boswell,  and  an  aunt  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Wormley  (after-  ■ 

wards  Mrs.  Braxton),  and  of  Dr.  Thomas  Boswell,  and  of  Mrs.  Boswell  ] 

Ptoy.  My  great-grandfather  was  an  importing  merchant,  and  the  '•war" 
interfered  sadly  with  his  business.  The  American  and  French  troops  at 
one  time  camped  in  the  field  on  the  left  hand  side  as  you  go  up  to  the 
house  called  the  Wind-mill  field,  and  fed  to  their  horses,  and  destroyed  a 
fine  crop  of  corn.     Many  years  afterwards  my  uncle  John  Tyler  found,  I 

in  an  old  "day-book"'  a  full  account  of  it,  in  which  my  great-grandfather  1 

stated  his  grievances,  and  thought  my  father  should  have  put  it  in  his 
hands  while  he  was  in  Congress.  My  great-grandfather  left  three  daugh- 
ters, Elizabeth,  Jenny  and  Dolly.  Elizabeth  married,  first  Col.  Thomas 
Whiting,  a  very  wealthy  man   of  Gloucester   Town.     They  had  three 

'Mrs.  Edwards  was  daughter  of  John  B.  Sea  well  and  Maria  Henry 
Tyler. 


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daughters,  one,  Jenny,  married  a  Mr.  Grimes;  had  two  children,  Charles, 
in  the  navy,  and  Mary  married  to  Mr.  Lewis  BurwelL  Elizabeth's  sec- 
ond marriage  was  to  ^lajor  Samuel  Gary.  The  third  daughter  of  my 
great-grandfatlier  married  "Gentleman  John  Camp.'*  The  only  son  of  my 
great-grandfather,  was  John,  my  father's  father.  .  ;  .  The  mother 
of  John  Seawell's  wife,  Fanny  Hobday  [she  was  dau.  of  John  and  Han- 
nah Hobday  ^  ]  was  one  of  twin  sisters,  Hannah  and  Joanna  Greene,  and 
were  lineal  descendants  of  the  Howards  of  England.  One  Lord  Howard 
came  to  this  country  in  some  oflieial  capacity.  Howard  is  still  a  family 
name.^  The  other  sister  married  a  Mr.  Dunlop,  of  the  Episcopal  Church, 
and  was  rector  of  Petsworth  Parish.^ 

My  grandfather,  after  his  marriage,  continued  to  live  with  his  par- 

^  In  the  Abingdon  Parish  register  John  Hobday,  son  of  John  Hobday 
and  Hannah  his  wife,  was  born  Nov.  2,  1759;  Francis  Hobday  was  born 
May  28,  17G1. 

^  The  Howard  tradition  is  doubtless  explained  by  a  descent  from  Wil- 
liam Howard,  who  came  to  Virginia  in  1G3G,  served  in  1644  as  volunteer 
under  Sir  William  Berkeley  against  Opechancanough,  when  the  Indian 
emperor  was  captured.  During  Bacon's  Ptebellion  his  house  was  occupied 
by  Bacon's  Lieut.-Colonel,  Thomas  Harris,  who  was  surprised  and  taken 
prisoner  with  his  command  by  Major  Robert  Beverley.  Howard  after- 
wards bitterly  complained  that  Beverley  had  plundered  his  store  to  the 
value  of  500£  sterling  (see  Sainshuri/  ilSS.,  and  ^irs.  Ann  Cotton's  ac- 
count in  Force's  Tracts).  The  following  entries  are  from  the  Abingdon 
Parish  register;  Sarah,  dau.  of  Henry  and  Hannah  Howard,  born  Dec. 
23,  1745.  Henry  Howard  m.  to  Hannah  White  April  29,  1744.  Molly, 
dau.  of  William  and  Mary  Howard,  b.  Xber  17,  1743.  Wm.  Howard  m.  to 
Mary  Freeman  Feb.  19,  1741.  John  Burt  and  Ann  Howard  were  married 
Nov.  4,  1735.  Jacob  Smith  and  Grace  Howard  were  married  Feb.  17,. 
1728.  Ann,  dau.  of  Hugh  Howard  baptized  March  13,  1714.  Eliz.,  dau. 
of  Hugh  Howard,  baptized  Oct.  29,  1710.  Grace,  dau.  of  Hugh  and  Eliza- 
beth Howard,  baptized  Sept.,  1704.  William,  son  of  Hugh  and  Elizabeth 
Howard,  baptized  Oct.  27,  1700.  Mary,  dau.  of  Hugh  and  Elizabeth 
Howard,  baptized  July  10,  1G98.  Grace,  dau.  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth 
Hayward,  baptized  Oct.  ye  8th,  1699.  Eliz.,  the  dau.  of  Richard  and 
Elizabeth  Hayward,  baptized  Aug.  12,  1705. 

^  In  1774  Rev.  William  Dunlop  was  rector  of  Stratton  Major  Parish, 
King  William  county.  He  was  formerly  from  Philadelphia.  He  had 
an  extensive  library  of  ''several  thousand  volumes  in  most  arts  and 
sciences."  His  wife  Deborah  died  in  1775  {Quarterly  VI.,  p.  6).  Rev. 
Mr.  Dunlop  died  in  Sept.,  1779,  while  rector  of  St.  Paul's  Parish,  Han- 
over county.  His  dau.  Deborah  m.  John  Robinson,  of  Green  Branch,  Mid- 
dlesex, and  had  issue,  William  D.,  Deborah  E.  C,  Benjamin  F.,  and 
Christopher  (see  will  of  John  Robinson,  in  JMiddlesex,  dated  Sept.  15, 
1818).  Was  Mrs.  Edvvards  right  in  calling  the  other  twin  sister  Greene 
Joanna?    Was  it  not  Deborah? 


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€iits  at  their  scat  (Gloucester  Place),  which  at  their  death  he  inherited. 
Their  eldest  son,  John  Bos  well,  was  my  father,  horn  July,  1780.  Then 
came  Sterling,  Fanny,  Courtney,  Overton,  Thomas  Machen,  Jane,  Fran-  i 

-cis  Thornton,  Benjamin  and  Washington.    My  grandfather  wa^  a  vestry-  \ 

man  of  Abingdon  church.    He  died  at  forty-six  years  of  age,  leaving  my  | 

father  and  his  old  friend,  Benjamin  Daljney,  his  e.xors.       He  left  a  very  i 

large  estate,  lands  and  negroes.     My  father  went  first  to  the  grammar  f 

school,  and  then  to  the  college  of  William  and  IMary.    His  father  said  he  i 

regretted  having  sent  him  to  William  and  Mary  because  he  came  home  a  | 

Democrat,  he  being  a  Federalist.     I  heard  my  father  say  that  after  he  » 

was  married  it  was  proposed  at  a  large  dinner  party  at  Belle  Farm  (Col.  | 

Lewis'  residence)   that  his  father  should  be  brought  out  as  a  candidate  £ 

for  the  Legislature,  and  the  votes  of  those  present  were  taken  on  the  I 

proposition.    When  father's  turn  came  to  vote  he  said  he  would  not  vote  i 

for  him,  when  his  father  immediately  declined  the  proposition,  saying  he  | 

could  not  consent  to  run  if  his  own  son  would  oppose  him.     My  father  * 

studied  law  with  Edmund  Randolph  in  Richmond,  after  having  grad-  | 

uated  at  William  and  Mary.    Even  in  his  old  age  and  under  many  afllic-  | 

tions,  he  was  a  delightful  companion;    full  of  anecdote.    While  at  college  } 

liad  rooms,  and  kept  his  servant  and  horse,  even  at  the  age  of  sixteen.  \ 

On  a  visit  to  **]Miss  Betsey  Christian,"  in  Charles  City,  he  first  saw  my  f 

mother,^  a  child  of  twelve  years.    They  were  married  when  he  was  twenty  f 

and  she  sixteen,  on  Dec.  23,  1800,  at  Greenway,  the  residence  of  her  I 

father.  Gov.  John  Tyler.    My  aunt  told  me  her  '"papa"  would  have  taken  ?• 

her  to  the  wedding,  but  the  pole  and  horses  had  been  lent  to  Mrs.  George  C 

Catlett,  who  had  gone  to  King  and  Queen  to  be  married,  and  (of  course)  f 

they  could  not  go  with  only  two  horses!     My  parents  lived  some  time  | 

with  my  grandparents,  by  whom  my  mother  was  much  beloved.     Their    -  I 

oldest  son,  my  brother  John,  was  born  in  W~illiamsburg.  in  Dec,  1S03,  I 

and  was  named  by  my  father  "John  Tyler,"  when  baptized  by  Bishop  :^ 

Madison  at  my  mother's  house  in  Williamsburg.    Then  came  my  brother  » 

William,  also  born  in  Williamsburg.    After  my  parents  came  back  to  live  | 

at  Gloucester  Place,  I  was  born;     and  their  other  children — Boswell,  | 

Sterling,  Wat.  Washington,  and  Joseph — were  all  born  there.  j 

My  father  called  me  Maria,  after  my  mother,  and  she  added  "Louisa,"  ' 

after  "Aunt  Hairston,"  but  my  uncle,  John  Tyler,  said  she  was  the  great- 
est Bonapartist  he  ever  saw,  and  so  called  me  ]Maria  Louisa ! 

My  brother  John  married  Elizabeth  Hairston,  of  Henry  county,  who 
died  leaving  two  children — John  Hairston  and  ]Maria  Louisa  Seawell. 
He  married  [secondly]  Miss  Jackson. 

'  Maria  Henry  Tyler. 


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AEMISTEAD  F.UEILY. 

[QuAKTERLY,  VoL  VI.,  pp.  21,  97,  104,  220 :  Vol.  VII.,  pp.  17,  181.] 

MiSCELLAXEOUS  IXEMS. 

In  Iioper  vs.  Arinistead'  is  a  deed  dated  March  20,  1780,  be- 
tween Mary  Armistead,  of  the  county  of  New  Kent,  widow,  and 
William  Armistead,  of  the  city  of  Williamsburg,  of  the  one  part, 
and  Bartholomew  Dandridge,  of  Ne\7  Kent,  of  the  other  part. 
It  states  that  John  Armistead,  of  New  Kent,  died  without  will, 
leaving  the  said  Mary  his  widow,  William  his  eldest  son  and 
heir,  with  sundry  younger  children,  viz.,  Eobert  Barbiilge  Arm- 
istead, Gill  Armistead,  Bartholomew  Dandridge  Armistead,  Eliza- 
beth Armistead,  Lucy  Armistead,  Susanna  Armistead  and  Mar- 
tha Armistead.     (See  also  Quarterly,  VIL,  101,  231.) 


A  letter  from  Mrs.  Margaret  A.  Lewis,  corrects  the  note  on 
page  21  (Vol.  YIL)  and  adds  fuller  details.  Eeporting  her 
mother  (now  deceased),  she  says  that  William  Armistead,  her 
grandfather,  had  at  least  two  brothers,  both  of  whom  were  Idlled 
during  the  Eevolution.  William  savv'  his  brother  Westwood 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Brandywine,  and,  though  only  sixteen 
years,  joined  the  ranlv.  He  remained  in  the  army  till  the  sur- 
render at  Yorktown.  He  had  two  sisters,  who  died  young,  and 
mentioned  his  aunts  living  in  Yirginia;  his  father  died  before 
the  Eevolution.  William  Armistead  moved  to  Eandolph  county, 
North  Carolina,  and  married  first  Eebecca  Kimbell,  near  War- 
renton.  The  family  Bible  is  authentic  evidence  for  the  births 
of  their  children,  (1)  Westwood,  born  August  24,  1791,  (2)  John 
Elimbell,  born  December  16,  1792,  (3)  Elizabeth  Lee,  born  Oct. 
13^  1791:,  (-4)  [Martha,  born  Sept.  1,  1796.  He  married,  sec- 
ondly, Elizabeth,  widow  of  John  Morris,  and  dau.  of  Mr.  

Lewis  and  his  wife,  Jane  Westmoreland,  of  Halifax  county,  Ya. 
(N.  C.?).  His  second  wife  had  one  son  by  her  first  husband, 
John  Morris,  mentioned  in  extracts  from  Ball's  Rlstonj  of 
Clarke  County,  Georgia.  Issue  by  second  marriage  with  Eliza- 
beth Lewis,  (5)  Eobert  Starkey,  born  Nov.  5,  1800,  (6)  Jane 
Westmoreland,  born  April  10,  1802.  Capt.  William  Armistead 
moved  in  1819  to  Clarke  county,  Ala.  His  tombstone  has,  ""In 
memory  of  Capt.  William  Armistead,  a  soldier  of  the  Eevolution, 

^Origiual  papers  preserved  in  Williamsburg  clerk's  office. 


64  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

a  native  of  Virginia,  who  departed  this  life  March  1,  1842,  aged 
eighty  years."     His  son  Westwood  m.  Elizabeth  Bomighs,  in  f 

Ts^orth  Carolina,  and  died  1845.    Issue  (1)  James  W.,  (2)  Bryan,  \ 

(3)  William  W.,  (4)  Robert  S.,  (5)  Emma  Arraistead,  m.  Cun- 
ningham,  (6)   Elizabeth,  m.  her  second  cousin  John  Kimbell.  l 
The  second  son  of  Capt.  William  Armistead,  John  K.  Armistead,  ' 
m.  Julia  Gaines.    They  lived  in  Wilcox  county,  Ala.,  thence  he             \ 
moved  with  his  family  to  Mississippi  about  1840.     Issue   (1)  -r 
William,  died  of  yellow  fever  in  Louisiana,  (2)  James  d.  s.  p., (3)              f 
Gex.  Charles  Armistead,  of  Confederate  army,  d.  s.  p.,  (4)             | 
John,  issue  one  son  and  one  dau,  (5)  Dr.  E.  K.  Armistead,  of  | 
Prescott,  Ala.,  who  has  son  George,  (6)  dau.  d.  s.  p.,  (7)  dau.  ! 
d.  s.  p.     Eobert  Starkey,  third  son  of  William  Armistead,  m.  f 
Anne  Carney,  moved  to  Texas  in  1835,  died  in  1866.    The  oldest  | 
dau.  of  William  Armistead,  Elizabeth  Lee,  married  his  step-son  \ 
John  Morris,  second  dau.  m.  Edmund  Waddill,  of  Xorth  Caro-  j 
lina.     They  have  great  grandchildren  in  Wilcox  county,  Ala.  I 
Jane  Westmoreland,  youngest  dau.  of  William  x\rmistead  by  his  I 
second  wife,  m.  in  Alabama  1821  Dr.  IsTeal  Smith,  a  native  of  j 
Moore  county,  ]^.  C,  son  of  Malcolm  Smith.     Malcolm  Smith  ! 
and  Malcolm  Smith,  Sr.,  were  soldiers  of  the  Eevolution,  and, 
though  of  Scotch  descent,  their  w^orst  foes  were  the  '^Scotch 
Tories."     (See  Ball's  History  of  Clar'ke  Count ij  for  a  sketch  of  \ 
Dr.  Neal  Smith.)    Issue  of  Dr.  ISTeal  Smith  and  Jane  Westmore-              \ 
land.  Armistead,  (1)  Julia  Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.  7,  1822,  m.  Feb.,  | 
1840,  David  White,  a  native  of  Virginia,  (2)  Sarah  Louisa,  b.  % 
Jan.  12,  1824,  m.  John  B.  Savage  iS'ov.,  1843,  left  issue,  (3)  ^ 
Margaret  A.,  b.  June  30,  1825,  m.  1845  Kirkland  Harrison,  a  \ 
native  of  South  Carolina,  son  of  Eeuben  Harrison,  who  moved 
from  James  Elver,  Va.,  died  1850,  leaving  one  child,  Henry  ■ 
Kirkland  Harrison:  married  secondly,  in  1860,  Asa  M.  Lewis,  of              | 
Brenhan,  Texas,  a  native  of  Tennessee.     (4)  Robert  Armistead,               [ 
h.  Dec.  18,  1826,  died  a  prisoner  of  war  on  Ship  Island  in  1864. 
(5)  is^eal,  b.  March  18,  1828,  m.  in  1869  Miss  Watkins  from 
Virginia,  near  Hampden-Sidney  College.     (6)  Jane  Armistead,  , 
b.  July  18,  1835,  m,  James  D.  Bryant,  of  Wilcox  county,  Ala.               \ 
(7)  Martha  Rebecca,  b.  Sept.  20,  1837,  m.  first  Richard  Starkey               j 
Jones,  of  Selma,  Ala.,  who  died  Dec,  1858,  leaving  two  children,               i 
Mrs.  Sallie  Jones  Featherston,  of  Rome,  Ga.,  and  Drury  Fair               1 


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Jones,  died  unmarried ;  she  m.  second Rixio,  by  whom  no  is- 
sue. (8)  Catharine  Jeanet,  b.  Dec.  18,  1839,  m.  Dr.  ILG.  Davis  in 
1871.  (9)  Mary  Caroline,  b.  Oct.  6,  18-11,  m.  Thomas~Boroughs, 
Jr.,  leaving  issue.  Dr.  Wm.  M.  Boroughs,  of  Pine  Hill,  Wilcox 
county,  Ala. 

Capt.  William  Armistead  (1762-1843)  was  doubtless  a  son 
of  170  Anthony'^  Armistead,  and  brother  of  204  Anthony",  205 
Robert^  206  Westwood«,  and  207  Alexander  Carver«.  (See  Quar- 
terly, VII.,  p.  20-21.) 

As  Capt.  Williarii  Armistead's  eldest  daughter  was  Elizabeth 
Lee,  it  is  probable  that  his  mother  was  Elizabeth  Lee.  (A  family 
of  Lees  has  long  resided  in  the  neighborhood  of  Elizabeth  City 
county. ) 

William  Armistead,  of  North  Carolina  (see  Vol.  YIL,  p. 
183)  who  was  born  in  Virginia  Sept.  19,  1730,  was  very  probably 
son  of  Anthony  Armistead,  of  ISTorth  Carolina,  who  with  his  wife 
Mildred,  made  a  deed  for  land  in  Warwick  county,  Va.,  in  1759 
{Ibid,  p.  181).  This  Anthony  was  doubtless  97  Anthony®  Arm- 
istead, of  Warwick  county,  son  of  87  Anthony^  Armistead,  of 
Warwick,  who  was  probably  twice  married,  viz.,  to  (1)  Jane 
Moss,  daughter  of  Elizabeth  j\Ioss,  of  York  county  (will  proved 
in  1736),  who  was  daughter  of  John  Moore  and  Ann  Starkey. 
(2)  to  Margaret  Benit,  who  survived  him.  87  Anthony"  Arm- 
istead was  eldest  son  of  Major  William*  Armistead  and  Hannah 
Hinde,  and  Major  William"*  was  son  of  Capt.  Anthony^  x\rm- 
istead,  who  was  son  of  William^  Armistead,  the  emigrant,  who 
was  son  of  Anthony^  Armistead  and  Frances  Thompson,  his  wife, 
of  Kirkdeighton  in  Yorkshire,  England. 

William  Armistead's  son  Eobert,  born  ISTov.  13,  1767,  was 
grandfather  of  the  late  Thomas  S.  Armistead,  late  chairman  of 
the  Board  of  Education  for  Washington  county,  1^.  C.  (See  Vol. 
VIL,  p.  21.) 

William  Armistead's  daughter  Priscilla,  born  'Nov.,  1783, 
married  Joel  Thorp,  of  Xew  Haven,  Conn.  They  lived  in 
Edenton,  N.  C.  Issue,  Sarah  Jordan  Thorp,  only  dau.  who 
lived  to  be  more  than  twenty-one.  She  married  John  Martin 
Saunders,  a  Methodist  minister  of  the  Virginia  Conference.  Is- 
sue (1)  Sarah  Thorp  Saunders,  who  m.  William  Kay,  of  Central 
College,  Fayetteviile,  Mo.;   no  issue.     (2)  Priscilla  Armistead, 


66  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

who  in.  Edward  Nicholas  Allen,  now  professor  of  English  Lan- 
guage and  Literature  in  the  University  of  Missouri. 

William  Armistcad's  dau.  Mary  married,  as  we  have  seen, 
David  Wright,  of  Nansemond  county.  Their  son.  Dr.  David 
Minton  Wright,  was  born  in  Nansemond  county  in  1809,  edu- 
cated at  Capt.  Patrick's  military  school  in  Middletown,  Conn., 
studied  medicine  under  Dr.  William  Warren,  of  Edenton,  N.  C. 
(father  of  Dr.  Edward  Warren,  who  wrote  A  Doctor's  Experi- 
ences in  Three  Continents,''  made  Bey  by  the  Khedive  of  Egy^pt), 
and  graduated  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  Removed  to 
Norfolk,  where  he  attended  the  yellow  'fever  sufferers  in  1855, 
and  practiced  his  profession  with  zeal  and  success  till  the  war. 
After  the  surrender  of  Norfolk  to  the  Federal  authorities  in  1863 
Dr.  Wright  became  involved  in  an  unfortunate  difficulty  with  a 
Federal  lieutenant  by  the  name  of  Sanborn.  This  man  one  day 
came  down  the  sidewalk  in  Norfolk  at  the  head  of  a  squad  of 
negro  soldiers,  driving  the  pedestrians  of  both  sexes  into  the 
gutter.  Dr.  Wright  was  forced  into  the  door  of  a  grocery  store, 
whence,  exasperated  beyond  measure,  he  swore  at  the  lieutenant. 
Sanborn  thereupon  advanced  upon  him  with  drawn  sword,  and 
though  warned  not  to  advance  by  the  doctor,  continued  to  do  so. 
Thereupon,  in  self-defence,  the  doctor  fired  and  killed  Sanborn. 
For  this  he  was  tried  by  court-martial  and  executed  on  the  scaf- 
fold despite  the  prayerful  entreaties  of  his  family  and  the  citizens 
of  Norfolk,  who  held  him  in  highest  esteem.  The  General  x\s- 
sembly  of  Virginia  passed  resolutions  in  his  honor.  He  left 
several  children,  among  them  Penelope,  who  m.  Eev.  Alex.  W. 
Weddill,  of  Richmond,  Va.,  Elizabeth,  who  m.  WilUam  Henry 
Talbot,  of  Norfolk,  Jessie,  who  m.  Henry  De  Berniere  Hooper,  of 
North  Carolina,  son  of  J.  DeB.  Hooper  and  Mary  E.  Hooper, 
which  last  was  daughter  of  Rev.  William  Hooper  (and  Fanny  P. 
Jones),  grandson  of  William  Hooper,  signer  of  the  Declaration 
of  American  Independence,  a  man  whom  John  Adams  mentions 
as  the  peer  in  oratory  of  Richard  Henry  Lee  and  Patrick  Henry. 
Other  descendants  of  this  line  are  the  Suttons,  of  Norfolk,  the 
Plummers,  of  Petersburg,  Bachelors,  of  Raleigh,  N.  C,  Moores, 
of  Edenton,  N.  C,  the  Capeharts,  of  Kittrell  Springs,  N.  C,  etc. 


Mr.  F.  H.  Armistead,  of  Farmville,  Va.,  writes  that  his  fa- 
ther, Fabian  Armistead,  of  Petersburg,  belonged  to  what  is 


William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  67 

known  as  the  Mecklenburg  Armisteads.  His  mother  was  a  dau. 
of  Eev.  Wm.  Harrison,  elected  minister  of  Blandford  church  in 
1762,  and  died  about  181G  or  1817.  His  eldest  brother,  John 
Claj-ton  Armistead,  lives  in  Petersburg.  The  Mecklenburg 
family  probably  came  from  the  Petersburg  or  Blandford  Arm- 
isteads. (January  1899,  Vol.  VIT.,  No.  3,  p.  183.)  There  is  a 
deed  in  Elizabeth  City  county  records  of  "Itobert  Armistead,  of 
Dinwiddle  county,  carpenter,"  which  suggests  perhaps  an  iden- 
tity between  the  Petersburg  family  and  the  Elizabeth  City  county 
family. 


Mr.  Daniel  C.  Armistead  (born  1851),  of  Xorfolk,  is  son  of 
George  Reld  Armistead,  born  1808,  died  1891.  The  latter  was 
son  of  Francis  Armistead  and  Elizabeth  Buckner  (they  married 
in  1798,  and  had  ten  children,  four  of  them  sons,  (1)  Thomas 
Buckner,  (2)  George  Reid,  above  named,  (3)  John  Patteson,  (-1) 
Francis.  Francis  Armistead  was  son  of  George  Armistead  (and 
Lucy  Palmer),  and  was  born  in  1773,  and  died  in  1839.  These 
data  were  communicated  to  me  as  on  the  authority  of  a  Bible 
record.  By  reference  to  Vol.  VI.,  p.  32,  "Dorothy  Reade,  dau. 
of  George  and  Lucy  Armistead  (of  Mathews  county),  born  May 
23,  1775."  (In  Vol.  VII.,  p.  183)  "Francis  Armistead,  ot 
Mathews  county,  married  Dorothy  Reade,  Feb.  2,  1760."  Dorothy 
Eeade  was  vtidow  of  Capt.  G^^ti  Read,  eldest  son  of  Benjamin 
Reade,  which  last  in  1691  deeded  the  site  of  the  present  York- 
towTi  to  the  Commonwealth.  Benjamin  Reade  was  son  of  Col. 
George  Reade,  of  the  Council,  Secretary  of  State,  etc.,  of  a  very 
ancient  family  in  England.  It  would  seem  as  if  George  x\rm- 
istead  (1773-1839)  was  a  brother  of  Richard  and  Currill  Arm- 
istead, o-f  Kingston  Parish,  Mathews  county  (originally  Glouces- 
ter), and  that  they  were  sons  of  Francis  Armistead,  who  was 
son  of  Ralph  Armistead,  named  in  the  will  of  Francis  Armistead, 
recorded  in  Richmond  county  in  1713  (see  Vol.  VI.,  p.  321),  who  , 
was  son  of  Ralph  Armistead,  who  patented  lands  in  Kingston 
Parish  in  1678,  and  who,  I  suppose,  was  son  of  William  Arm- 
istead, the  emigrant,  and  grandson  of  Anthony  Armistead  and 
Frances  Thompson,  his  wife,  of  Kirk  Deighton,  in  Yorkshire, 
England. 


68  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

John  Armistead,  of  Virginia,  had  John  Armistead,  bom  near 
a  little  town  called  Cartersville,  in  Cumberland,  March  14,  1774, 
and  died  in  Walton  county,  Ga.,  ISTov.,  185G,  aged  eighty-two. 
He  had  issue,  Ylt.  Jaboz  J.  Armistead,  born  in  Walton  county, 
Ga.,  Dec.  8,  1828,  and  now  living  in  New  Orleans,  the  youngest 
of ■  seventeen  children,  all  of  whom  are  dead  (except  himself), 
leaving  numerous  descendants.  This  last  is  father  of  Jabez  0. 
Armistead,  chief  train  dispatcher  of  the  N.  0.  &  N.  E.  railroad, 
at  New  Orleans.  In  Vol.  VII.,  p.  184,  it  is  shown  that  Eev.  Jesse 
Armistead,  the  distinguished  Presbyterian  divine,  was  son  of 
James  Armistead  and  grandson  of  John  Armistead,  of  Cumber- 
land county,  whose  will  was  recorded  there  March  27,  1769. 


Anthony  Armistead  and  Mourning,  his  wife,  of  North  Caro- 
lina, made  a  deed  in  1791  for  lands  in  Elizabeth  City  county, 
Va.,  known  as  "Anthony  Armistead's  lands,^^  devised  to  him  by 
the  will  of  Anthony  Tucker,  after  the  death  of  his  mother,  Mary 
Armistead,  now  Mary  Williams.  I  think  7low  that  Anthony 
Armistead's  wife  was  really  a  daughter  of  Anthony  Tucker  and 
Eosea,  his  wife,  as  first  stated  (see  Vol.  VL,  p.  20-21,  and  VII., 
p.  185).  In  her  will,  dated  1766,  Eosea  Tucker  leaves  property 
to  her  grandchildren,  Elizabeth,  Anthony,  Bobert,  West  wood 
and  Alexander  Carver,  children  of  my  dau.  Mary  Armistead  by 
Anthony  Armistead,  her  husband.  She  mentions  her  three  daus. 
Mary  King,  Judith  Herbert,  and  Mary  Armistead,  names  Sarah 
Dixon,  and  appoints  William  Armistead  guardian  of  Elizabeth 
Armistead  till  twenty-one.  Her  husband  Anthony  (will  dated 
Sept.  15, 1758;  proved  Jan.  2, 1759),  names  wife  Eosea,  children 
Curie  Tucker,  Sarah  Dixon  and  Mary  Armistead,  grandson  An- 
thony Armistead,  grandson  Anthony  Tucker  Dixon.  W^itnesses, 
Anne  Armistead,  E.  Armistead.  In  1728-'29  Anthony  Tucker 
and  Mary  his  wife  made  a  deed  in  favor  of  John  Jenkins  and 
Mary  Jenkins,  children  of  said  Mary  Tucker.  Soon  after  this 
Eosea,  widow  of  Joshua  Curie,  Mary  Tucker's  brother,  married 
Anthony  Tucker,  Mary  Tucker's  husband. 


Correction.— Vll.,  p.  20,  172.  The  will  of  172  Westwood® 
Armistead  (Westwood^,  Anthony*,  Anthony^,  William^,  An- 
thony^)   mentions  only  two  children — Westwood   and   Eobert. 


William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  69 

Elizabeth  and  Mary  were,  according  to  the  account  of  Mrs.  Har- 
riet Armistcad,  of  Hampton,  his  sisters,  not  his  daughters,  and 
are  therefore  identical  with  173  Elizabeth,  married  first  Vincher 
Jones,  2,  Thomas  Smith,  174  Mary.  This  Mary  married  Dr. 
Pope,  of  Yorktown. 

•  VI.,  p.  99,  100.  I  think  now  that  "sister  Elizabeth  Arm- 
istead,"  named  in  will  of  James  Burwell,  was  not  wife  of  John 
Armistead,-but  was  a  sister  of  Burwell's  wife,  Mary  Arraistead. 

VI.,  p.  231.     James  Bray  Armistead  is  called  by  mistake 
'l^rother  of  Booth  Armistead" ;    he  was  nephew. 


On  the  fly-leaf  of  one  of  the  record  books  at  Yorktown  is  writ- 
ten in  a  large,  bold  hand,  "Hannah  Armi,stead  is  one  of  y^  hand- 
somest girls  in  Virginia,  by  Thomas  Frayser/'  "Hannah  For- 
ever, David  Cambridge."  As  Thomas  Frayser  married  Frances 
Wise  about  173-1,  the  Hannah  Armistead  may  have  been  Han- 
nah^, dau.  of  82  ^Major  William*  Armistead,  of  Elizabeth  City. 
(Anthony^,  William-,  Anthony^,  of  Yorkshire).  This  Hannah 
married  Miles  Cary,  of  Pear  Tree  Hall  (Vol.  VIE,  p.  228),  or 
the  reference  may  be  to  Hannah^,  dau.  of  Lt.-Col.  83  Anthony* 
Armistead,  of  Elizabeth  City  (Anthony^,  William-,  Anthony^). 
She  married  William  Allen. 


Armistead  MSS. 

In  the  Fairfax  manuscripts  sold  at  auction  in  London,  June 
8, 1898,  there  were  two  lots  designated  as  follows : 

548  Yorkshire.  Thii-teen  Original  Deeds  on  vellum,  relating 
to  the  families  of  Brerey,  Fawkes,  Vavasour,  Wrose,  Knowles, 
Pickering,  Thackeray,  Pulleyn,  Mawde,  Stead,  Armytstead, 
Kendall,  Scott,  etc.,  and  lands  in  Fuiston,  Stead,  Burley,  Men- 
ston,  Askwi-tli,  York,  from  the  time  of  Elizabeth,  with  signature 
and  SQals. 

574  Yorkshire.  Twenty-eight  original  Deeds  on  vellum  of 
the  families  of  Barker,  Kendall,  Middleton,  Arraistead,  Pulleyn, 
Stanhope,  Stead,  Caiverley,  Fairfax,  Wyclyffe,  etc.,  relating  to 
lands  in  Burley  and  Ottley,  from  the  tim<^  of  Queen  Elizabeth, 
with  signatures  and  seals. 

The  first  named  lot  was  bought  by  W.  Paley  Bailton,  Esq.,  5 
Stone  Buildings,  Lincoln's  Sun,  London,  W.  C,  who  writes  me 
in  reference  to  Armistead : 


70  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

Particulars. — Date  1617.  Conveyance  by  Edward  Arrnyt- 
stead,  of  Sieklinghall,  Co.  York,  yeoman,  of  land  in  Burley  in 
Wharf  dale.    No  Armystead  signatures  or  seals. 

Mr.  Bailton  adds  that  the  deed  is  of  considerable  length  and 
would  be  expensive  to  have  copied,  but  as  he  bought  it  for  the 
sake  of  some  other  documents  in  the  lot  he  would  sell  it  for  £5. 
He  gives  me  the  following  items  from  his  notes : 

1.  Edward  Arm}i;3tead  and  Francis  Pulleyne  were  concerned 
in  the  purchase  of  lands  in  Burley  and  neighborhood  in  1G17 
(Feet  of  Fines,  Yorks,  Mich.,  15  James  I.,  part  3.) 

2.  Eichard  Armistead  and  others  were  concerned  in  the  pur- 
chase of  lands  in  Pathorne  and  Ellingthorpe  in  1619  (Feet  of 
Fiues,  Yorks,  Easter,  17  James  I.,  part  1.) 

3.  Thomas  Armestead  and  others  were  concerned  in  the  pur- 
chase of  lands  in  Eothwell  in  1642  (Feet  of  Fines,  Yorks,  Eas- 
ter, 18  Charles  I.) — Kate  Mason  Rowland. 


CHEISTIAN  FAMILY.* 

{Continued  from  Vol.  V.,  page  261.) 

In  the  article  in  the  Quarterly  for  April,  1897,  (of  which 

this  article  is  a  continuation),  at  page  263,  we  have  seen  that  4 

James-  Christian,  called  (in  the  Goochland  County  records) 

'^of  the  Parish  of  St.  Peter's,  ]N"ew  Kent  County,"  married  Amy 

and  had  issue  (naming  them,  for  convenience,  in.  the  order 

in  which  they  are  named  at  page  263)  : 

53  Judith,  baptised  May  21,  1711; 

54  Gideon,  bom  Feby.  5,  1727-28; 
65  Eichard,  of  Charles  City  County; 

56  Joei,  of  Charles  City  County; 

57  William,  formerly  of  Goochland ; 

.  '      58  James,  also  "of  St.  Peter's  Parish." 
All  these,  of  course,  were  in  the  third  generation  from  the 

*Thi3  article  (and  those  which  are  to  follow  it,  tracing  the  descen- 
dants of  57  William  Christian,)  was  prepared  for  the  most  part  by- 
Judge  James  Christian  Lamb,  of  Richmond  (a  descendant  of  58  James 
Christian,  supra),  assisted  by  Judge  George  L.  Christian,  of  Richmond, 
and  Dr.  Samuel  Pleasants  Christian,  of  Roanoke.  It  is  suggested  that, 
for  convenience,  all  corrections  and  additions  be  sent  directly  to  Judge 
Lamb. — Editor. 


Salus  per  Christum. 


William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  71 

original  Thomas  Christian.    Their  father,  4  James^,  died  before 
1752.  * 

In  this  and  the  succeeding  articles  it  is  proposed  to  trace  the 
descendants  of  57  Williaii  Ciiristiax,  so  far  as  they  have  been 
ascertained,  beginning,  for  convenience,  with  him  as  propositus. 
In  future  issues  of  the  Quarterly  the  descendants  of  54  Gideox 
and  58  James  may  be  given  more  fully  than  has  been  done  in  the 
preceding  article  at  page  363. 

In  the  article  in  the  Quarterly  for  April,  1897,  it  is  said 
that,  owing  to  the  destruction  of  the  records  in  ISTew  Kent  and 
Charles  City  Counties,  ^'it  is  difficalt  to  connect  this  family  with 
any  of  the  English  families  of  the  same  name  in  the  Isle  of  Man 
and  other  places'^;  and  it  is  remarked  that  investigation  in 
British  wills  and  other  records  on  the  other  side  of  the  ocean  may 
some  day  supply  this  loss.  It  is  not  pretended  that  the  missing 
link  in  this  matter  has  been  discovered,  but  there  are  certain  facts 
in  that  connection  which  are  both  interesting  and  valuable. 

It  has  always  been  firmly  believed  in  the  Virginia  family  of 
Christians  that  they  are  descended  from  the  family  of  that  name 
in  the  Isle  of  Man,  who,  as  is  well  known,  were  for  centuries  the 
dempsters  or  Judges  of  that  Island.  (See  preface  and  Appendix 
No.  1  to  Peveril  of  the  Peak).  Perhaps  this  belief,  until  a  few 
years  ago,  had  no  more  substantial  basis  than  tradition,  but  it 
seems  now  to  have  the  support  of  evidence  at  least  a  little  more 
satisfactory — especially  to  those  who,  very  naturally,  are  not  un- 
willing to  be  convinced. 

A  cut  of  the  coat  of  arms  of  the  Isle  of  Man  Christians,  with 
the  family  motto,  is  prefixed  to  this  article.  The  following  de- 
scription is  taken  from  BurTce's  General  Armory: 


courthouse  there:  WilUam  Christian,  son  of  James  Christian,  deceased, 
■?ells  250  acres  whereon  said  William  Christian  lately  lived,  on  east  side 
of  Beaverdam  Creek,  for  150  pounds  current  money,  1752;  Richard  and 
Joel  Christian,  of  Charles  City  county,  to  Rcr.'AYm.  Douglas,  of  (Gooch- 
land, 270  acres  left  to  them  by  their  deceased  father,  James  Christian. 
Witnesses  Thomas  and  John  Boiling,  Drury  Christian,  and  James 
Scruggs,  dated  July  16,  1754. 

Gideon  Christian,  of  Charles  City  county,  sells  for  30  pounds  current 
money  100  acres,  part  of  368  surveyed  for  James  Christian,  now  de- 
?eased,  oH'  Beaverdam  Creek,  as  by  certificate  March  11,  1711,  and  de- 
•i«ed  by  C'jn  to  said  Gideon,  21  Julv,  1756. 


72  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

Christian  (Unerigg*  Hall,  County  Cumberland,  descended 
from  the  ancient  family  of  M'Christen,  of  the  Isle  of  Man,  who 
for  several  generations  have  been  Dempsters  or  Judges  of  that 
Island;  the  name  appears  to  have  been  first  written  Christian 
about  the  year  ICOO  *  *  *)•  Azure;  a  chevron  humettec  be- 
tween three  covered  cups,  gold.  Crest — a  unicorn's  head  erased, 
Bilver,  collared  and  armed,  gold. 

The  following  description  of  the  crest  is  from  Fairbain's 
Crests  of  England  and  Ireland,  page  108  : 

CHETSTiA>f,  John,  Esq.,  M,  A.,  of  Ewanrigg  Hall,  Cumb.,  and 
Milntown,  Isle  of  Man,  a  unicorn's  head,  erased,  ar.,  armed,  and 
gorged  with  a  collar,  invecked,  or.  Salus  per  Christum.-] 

Fairbain's  Crests  of  England  and  Ireland  shows  no  less  than 
seven  different  crests  belonging  to  the  Christian  families.  Of 
these,  only  thi'ee  have  the  unicorn's  head,  only  two  have  the  head 
erased,  and  only  one,  the  Isle  of  Man  family,  has  a  collar,  on  the 

*  This  word  is  spelled  Ewanrigg  in  every  instance  except  this  and  in 
Appendix  Xo.  1  to  Peveril  of  the  Peak,  where  it  is  spelled  Enrigg.  Ewan- 
rigg is  believed  to  be  the  correct  spelling — obviously  from  Ewan,  the 
name  of  the  first  of  the  family  to  settle  in  Cumberland,  and  the  favorite 
given-name  for  males  in  the  Isle  of  Man.  The  following  is  from  Burke's 
Landed  Gentry: 

"Chbistia>-  of  Ewaxrigg  Hall. — The  first  ancestor  of  the  family 
on  record  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Keys,  in  the  Isle  of  Man,  at  the 
Tyndwall  Court,  held  in  that  Island  1422.  The  first  who  settled  at 
Ewanrigg  was  Ewan  Christian,  Esq.,  of  Milntown,  Barrister-at-law, 
eldest  son  of  Edward  Christian,  Esq.,  of  Milntown,  Demster  of  the  Isle  of 
Man  ♦  *  *  and  grandson  *  *  *  of  John  Christian,  Esq.,  of  Miln- 
town, living  1643,  who  was  son  of  Ewan  Christian,  Esq.,  of  Milntown, 
made  Demster  of  the  Isle  of  Man  1605,  and  grandson  of  William 
M'Christen,  of  Milntown,  7th  in  lineal  descent  from  William  M'Christen, 
a  member  of  the  House  of  Keys,  1422." 

t  As  this  matter  will  be  of  interest  to  many  persons  who  are  unac- 
quainted with  the  terms  used  in  heraldry,  it  is  thought  to  be  not  inap- 
propriate to  add  an  explanation  of  those  terms.  Erased  means  having 
uneven  or  jagged  edges,  as  if  torn  from  the  body  by  violence.  Ar. 
(argent)  means  that  the  head  is  of  the  color  of  silver.  Armed  means 
that  the  horn  is  of  different  color  from  the  head,  and  or.  indicates  that 
it  (the  horn)  is  of  gold.  Gorged  xcith  a  collar,  invecked,  or.,  means  that 
the  neck  is  encircled  with  a  collar  whose  edges  do  not  lie  flat  against  the 
neck,  but  are  arched  or  rolled  outwards  and  over,  and  that  the  color  of 
the  collar  is  gold.  The  field  of  the  shield  is  blue,  the  chevron  and  the  cups 
gold;  the  head  and  neck  silver,  the  horn  and  collar  gold. 


William  and  IVIary  College  Quarterly.  73 


ncclc.  The  significance  of  this  statement  will  be  seen  a  little 
later. 

It  seems  to  be  beyond  question  that  ^^Mr.  Thomas  Christian" 
was  the  progenitor  of  the  Virginia  family.  Independently  of  the 
records,  tradition  has  affirmed  for  more  than  a  century  that  "all 
the  Christians  trace  back  to  Mr.  Thomas  Christian,  who  owned 
all  the  land  on  both  sides  of  the  Chickahominy  river  from 
Windsor  Shades  to  Squirrel  Park,"  The  domains  of  Thomas 
may  not  have  been  as  extensive  as  thus  indicated,  but  it  is  known 
that  in  the  region  referred  to  there  were  at  one  time  twelve  con- 
necting plantations  owned  and  occupied  by  the  Christians. 

As  has  been  stated  in  the  article  in  the  Quarterly  for  April, 
1897,  this  Mr.  Thomas  Christian  patented,  Octo.  21,  1GS7,  lOSO 
acres  of  land  in  Charles  City  county.*  A  considerable  part  of 
that  land  has  been  from  that  day  to  this  continuously  in  the  fam- 
ily ;  and  a  farm  called  "Cherry  Bottom,"  in  Charles  City,  on  the 
Chickahominy,  a  part  of  the  original  grant,  is  now  owned  and 
occupied  by  Mrs.  Louisa  Christian  and  her  husband  Capt. 
Thomas  !>.  Christian,  both  referred  to  in  the  following  pages 
under  18  Thomas^  Christian.  This  farm  was  the  home  of  18 
Thomas^,  and  of  his  father  1  'William-^  (who  devised  it  as  "my 
home  place"  to  Thomas),  and  most  probably  of  Ms  father  57  TTiZ- 
liam^.  The  dwelling  house,  though  evidently  of  very  great  age, 
is  still  in  good  preservation.  A  few  years  ago,  in  repairing  one 
of  the  rooms,  an  old  silver  teaspoon  was  found  in  a  rat's  nest  in 
the  ceiling.  On  the  handle  of  this  spoon  is  stamped  a  unicorn's 
head,  which,  although  indistinct  in  some  of  its  details,  plainly 
shows  the  collar  around  the  neck.  This  spoon  is  now  in  the  pos- 
session of  Judge  George  L.  Christian,  of  Richmond. 

It  is  too  much  to  expect,  of  course,  that  the  following  outline 
of  the  family  is  free  from  errors  and  omissions,  although  no 
labor  nor  pains  have  been  spared  to  make  it  so.    The  destruction 

*  The  following  are  the  patents  in  the  Christian  name: 

1.  Thomas  Christian,  100  acres  north  side  of  James  River  and  east 
side  of  Chickahominy,  January  15,  1657;  and  another  patent  December 
9,  1662. 

2.  **:Mr.  Thomas  Christian"  1080  acres  in  Charles  City,  Octo.  21,  1687. 

3.  Mr.  Thomas  Christian,  Sen.,  193  acres  in  Charles  City,  Octo. 
26,  1694. 

4.  Charles  Christian,  75  acres  in  Charles  City,  Nov.  2,  1705. 


7-i  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  * 

of  the  public  records,  which  has  been  referred  to,  the  fragmentary 
character  of  such  of  them  as  remain/  the  extraordinary  number 
of  names,  the  constant  recurrence  of  the  same  names  (especially, 
in  the  earlier  years,  James  and  WiUiarri),  and  the  confusion  aris- 
ing from  the  persistent  habit  of  intermarrying,  have  made  the 
task  extremely  onerous.  It  is  hoped  that  the  result  will  proved 
to  be  at  least  fairly  satisfactory  to  those  who  are  most  interested 

in  it. 

{To  be  Continued.)  j 

I 


FACTS  FROM  "SOUTHERN"  SIDE  LIGHTS."  ^ 
By  Edward  \Y.  James. 
"Southern  Side  Lidits"  show  that  "in  1850  the  South  had  one 


pauper  for  every  303  free  inhabitants,  and  the  Xorth  one  for  | 

every  118.    Massachusetts  had  one  for  every  G3;   Maine,  one  for  ■ 

11.2;  iSTew  York,  one  for  52;  Virginia,  one  for  185;  Maryland,  | 

one  for  109;  Arkansas,  one  for  54.    In  the  free  States  were  more  ? 

than  five  times  as  many  paupers  as  in  the  South,  and  eight  times  { 

as  many  criminals.     Ten  years  later  the  South  had  25,181  pau-  I 

pers,  one  for  every  332  inhabitants,  and  7,398  criminals,  one  for  t 

1,130,  while  in  the  North  there  was  one  pauper  for  every  64  of  | 

the  inhabitants,  the  total  number  being  296,484,  and  one  crimi-  | 

nal  for  every  208  inhabitants,  the  total  being  91,438."    The  in-  | 

crease  in  the  population  of  the  North  from  1850  to  1860  was  41  I 

per  cent,  and  the  increase  of  paupers  160  per  cent.    The  popula-  | 

tion  of  the  South  advanced  29  per  cent,  and  the  paupers  increased  f 

18  per  cent.    In  Massachusetts  in  1860  there  were  18,010  native  | 

and  33,870  foreign-born  paupers.     In  1860  48  per  cent,  of  the  I 

criminals  in  the  South  were  foreigners,  and  in  the  North  68  per  I 

cent,  were  foreigners.  | 

^Southern  Side  Lights,  edited  by  Edward  Ingle,  page   114,   in  the 

William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly  for  October,  189S,  should  be  i 

Southern  Side  Lights,  by  Edward  Ingle.  I 


William  and  Mauy  College  Quarterly.  75 

NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Harding-Butler.  Edward  Harding,  b.  Nov.  10,  1755,  at 
Kockville,  Md.,  m.  on  May  12,  1778,  Ann  Butler  (b.  May  C,  1757) 
dau.  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Butler.  Wanted  parentages  of  Ed- 
ward Harding,  of  Thomas  Butler,  and  maiden  name  of  Elizabeth 
Butler. 

Randolph.  Willoughby  Randolph  (b.  1766),  presumably  in 
Norfolk  or  Princess  xVnne,  had  brother  Giles,  sister  Love,  who  m. 
William  Cannon,  and  had  issue  James  and  William.  W.  R.  m. 
Frances,  dan.  William  and  Priscilla  Thornton,  about  1790.  He 
moved  in  1795  to  Surry  county,  N.  C,  and  later  to  Lee  county, 
Ya.  Frances  Thornton  had  sisters  Polly,  who  m.  Humphreys  (  ?) 
and  Elizabeth,  who  m.  Sexton,  and  moved  to  Georgia;  also  some 
younger  half-brothers.  Wanted  the  names  of  parents  of  Wil- 
loughby Randolph.    Mother's  first  name  was  Mary. 

Trace  is  also  wished  of  John,  William,  and  Brooks,  sons  of 
Thornton  Randolph,  who  went  from  Illinois  to  Tennessee  in  the 
%0's,  and  of  Peter,  Peyton,  Harrison,  and  Beverly,  sons  of  Harri- 
son Randolph,  and  his  second  wife,  Jones,  of  Brunsmck 

county,  who  went  from  Virginia  to  Tennessee. — G.  A.  Randolph, 
Warrensburg,  Macon  county.  III.,  banJcer. 

Washington-Askton-West.  a  correspondent  sends  the 
following  from  a  Bible  record: 

Elizabeth  S.  Washington  was  born  20th  January,  1785;  mar- 
ried Thornton  Bernard,  of  Spotsylvania  county;  married  second 
T.  H.  Stark.  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah  Ashton,  was 
born  Oct.,  1768;  married  Henry  Washington,  of  Westmoreland. 
They  were  the  parents  of  sixteen  children,  the  oldest  of  whom 
was  the  above  Elizabeth.  Henry  died  in  1812,  aged  forty-seven 
years.    Sarah  died  July,  1831,  in  the  sixty-third  year  of  her  age. 

Hannah  Ashton,  consort  of  John  Ashton,  and  daughter  of 
John  and  I^lary  West,  died  in  1827,  in  the  seventy-ninth  year  of 
her  age. 

One  of  the  sixteen  children  of  Sarah  Ashton  and  Henry 
Washington  was  Lawrence  Washington,  who  married  Sarah  Tay- 
loe  Washington,  great-niece  of  George  Washington.  They  were 
the  parents  of  Henry  Augustine  Washington,  of  William  and 
Mary. 


76  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

What  we  want  to  know  is.  Who  was  the  father  of  the  Henry- 
Washington  who  married  Sarah  Ashton?  Also  if  the  West  can 
be  traced  back  to  the  brother  of  Lord  Delaware,  or  if  it  was  an- 
other family. 

The  remainder  of  this  Bible  record  relates  to  the  sixteen  chil- 
dren of  S.  A.  and  Henry  Washington.  Many  of  them  died  young, 
the  rest  married. 

William  axd  Mary  College,  1773-1775.  The  journal  of 
Philip  Vickers  Frithian,  a  graduate  of  Princeton  (1772),  and  a 
tutor  in  the  family  of  *^Councillor  Carter,"  of  Xomini  Hall, 
1773-'75,  is  being  prepared  by  Mr.  John  Eogers  Williams  for 
publication  in  the  Arnerican  Historical  Reviewf'  The  period  of 
the  journal  was  one  of  intense  disquietude  in  Virginia.  At  the 
College  the  Tory  President  and  Faculty  were  quarreling  with  the 
Whig  Board  of  Visitors  and  the  rebel  students,  for  Eevolution 
was  already  on  foot.  "Councillor  Carter"  was  the  eccentric  Ptob- 
ert  Carter  of  "iSTomini  Hall."    Extract : 

"After  having  dismissed  school,  I  went  over  to  Mr.  Carters 
study.  We  conversed,  at  length,  on  the  College  of  William 
and  Mary  at  Williamsburg.  He  informed  me  that  it  is  in  such 
confusion  at  present  and  so  badly  directed  that  he  cannot  send 
his  children,  with  propriety,  there  for  improvement  and  useful 
education.  That  the  Charter  of  the  College  is  vastly  extensive 
and  the  yearly  income  sufficient  to  support  a  University,  being 
4000£  sterling.  That  the  necessary  expense  for  each  scholar 
yearly  is  only  15£  currency.  Two  of  the  officers  of  the  institu- 
tion, Mr.  Bracken  and  Mr.  Henley,  clergymen,  are  at  present 
engaged  in  a  paper  war,  published  weekly  in  the  Williamshurg 
Gazette/' 


IKHilliam  anb  iSlbat^  College 

©uarterl?  Ibietorical  flDaoaslnc* 

VOL   Vin.  OCTOBER,  1899.  No.  2. 


/  LIBEAEIES  IN  COLONIAL  VIRGINIA. 

{See  page  18,  etc.) 
Library  of  Colonel  Johx  Waller. 

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Milton's  Paradise  Lost,  2s.;  Christian  Sacrifice,  5s.;  Good 
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book,  9d.;  Christian  Pattern,  Is.  3d.;  Gerhard's  Prayers,  Is.  3d.; 
Advice  to  a  Son,  6d. ;  a  Greek  Book,  Is.  3d.;  Character  of  a 
Trimmer,  3s.;  a  Book  of  the  Sufferings,  etc.,  of  King  Charles, 
9d. ;  an  old  Common  Prayer  Book,  with  pictures,  2s. ;  The  Faith 
and  Practice  of  a  Church  of  England,  9d. ;  a  large  Prayer  Book, 
with  cases,  etc.,  16s.;  a  large  new  Prayer  Book  in  neat  case, 
12s.;  Death  Made  Comfortable,  23.;  A  Winter  Evening's  Con- 
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6d. ;  Reflections  on  Devot°  of  Roman  Church,  2s. ;  Directions  to 
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Prayer,  9d. ;  Infidel  Convicted,  etc.,  4d. ;  Penitent  Hermit,  4d. ; 
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78  William  axd  ^Iary  College  Quarterly. 

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ginia Laws,  7s.  6d. ;  Wood's  Institutes,  20s.;  Philips'  Diction- 
ary, 3s. ;  De  Jure  Maritimo,  63. ;  Judge  Jenkens'  Works,  a  small 
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Note. — Col.  John  Waller  was  the  third  son  of  John  Waller,  M.  D. 
(a  son  or  near  relative  of  Edraund  Waller,  the  poet),  a  prominent  citi- 
zen of  Newport  Pagnel,  Buckinghamshire.  Dr.  Waller  was  probably 
the  John  Waller  who  received  patents  for  land  in  Virginia  in  1G67.  His 
son  John  located  in  Virginia  and  was  sheriff  of  King  and  Queen  in  1702, 
a  justice  of  King  William  in  1705,  and  a  member  of  the  House  of  Bur- 
gesses in  1719.  When  Spotsylvania  was  organized  out  of  King  William 
in  1722,  Col.  Waller  became  its  first  clerk.  His  will  is  recorded  in  Spot- 
sylvania. It  was  proved  October  1,  1754.  The  inventories  of  his  per- 
sonal estate  were  £1380  14s.  lid.  He  married  Dorothy  King,  and  had 
issue  ( 1 )  Mary,  married  Zachary  Lewis,  ( 2 )  Edmund,  second  clerk  of 
Spotsylvania  county,  (3)  John,  third  clerk,  who  married  Agnes,  dau.  of 
Capt.  Thomas  Carr,  (4)  William,  born  1715,  (5)  Thomas,  (G)  Benjamin, 
of  Williamsburg,  judge  of  the  Admiralty  Court,  etc.  One  fact  may  be 
added  to  the  pedigrees  in  the  Critic  and  in  Hayden's  Virginia  Geneal- 
ogies. The  will  of  Rice  Curtis  (dated  August  8,  1763,  proved  April  21, 
1774)  names  his  children  Mary,  who  married  Philip  Vincent  Vass: 
Martha  Pendleton,  Rice,  Eliza,  wdio  married  John  Waller,  Jr.;  Frances, 
who  married  William  Carter,  and  Jane.  The  Waller  homestead  in 
Spotslyvania  was  known  as  "Newport." 

Here  lies  interred 

Col.  William  Waller, 

who  died  Jany  10th  17  GO 

Age  45  years  and  7  months 

by 

John  Waller  Clark 
1765. 


The  above  is  the  general  appearance  of  a  stone,  deep  in  the  recesses 
of  a  lonely  group  of  pines,  on  the  edge  of  a  wood. 


80  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

TOBACCO  SMOKIXG. 

Most  people  are  apt  to  suppose  that  as  Virginians  raised  a 
great  deal  of  tobacco,  they  made  personal  use  of  a  great  deal. 
But  we  cannot  bo  too  cautious  in  drawing  general  conclusions. 

Brissot  de  Warville,  who  visited  the  country  in  1788,  says: 
"The  Virginians  take  no  tobacco  in  substance,  either  in  the  nose 
or  mouth;  some  of  them  smoke,  but  this  practice  is  not  so  gen- 
eral among  them  as  in  the  Carolinas.*' 

The  practice  of  smoking  tobacco  was  more  common  in  Eng- 
land than  in  Virginia.  On  the  return  of  his  son,  Thomas  Xelson 
(afterwards  general),  from  England,  William  Xelson  wrote  that 
he  regretted  "to  find  that  he  had  fallen  into  that  bad  practice 
which  most  of  the  young  Virginians  going  to  England  adopt,  of 
tobacco  smoking,"  adding  emphatically,  "filthy  tobacco/'  Also 
that  of  "eating  and  drinking,  thought  not  to  inebriety,  more  than 
was  conducive  to  health  and  long  life.''  {Meade's  Old  Families^ 
etc.,  VoL  I.,  p.  207.) 

As  a  matter  of  fact  there  is  at  present  a  much  greater  consump- 
tion of  liquor  and  tobacco  per  man  in  XewYork  and  Pennsyl- 
vania than  in  Virginia. 


CUERENT  EEROES. 
Brickmaking. — No  error  is  more  persisted  in  than  that  our 
old  colonial  brick  houses  were  made  of  "imported  brick."  There 
is  no  evidence  that  any  house  in  Virginia  was  made  of  imported 
brick,  while  there  is  plenty  of  evidence  of  brickmaking  in  Vir- 
ginia and  of  houses  actually  constructed  out  of  Virginia  brick. 
The  only  circumstance  to  support  the  tradition  is  that  some- 
times ships  brought  over  a  few  bricks  as  ballast.  But,  like  other 
ballast,  they  were  generally  dumped  into  the  rivers  and  creeks. 
The  tradition  doubtless  arose  from  the  two  kinds  of  brick  in  use 
in  early  Virginia :  English  brick,  i.  e.,  brick  made  according  to 
the  English  statute  and  Dutch  brick,  i.  e.,  such  brick  as  was 
commonly  used  in  Holland.  In  the  course  of  time  a  house  which 
was  truly  said  to  be  made  of  "English  brick"  came  to  suggest  a 
construction  of  foreign  brick,  or  imported  brick.  The  following 
extracts  from  the  records,  in  addition  to  what  has  already  been 
published  in  the  magazine  at  diiferent  times,  may  tend  to  a  sup- 


Current  Errors.  81 

pression  of  the  error,  for  it  is  a  reflection  on  our  Virginia  ances- 
tors to  say  that  they  had  to  send  to  England  for  their  brick: 

"Complaint  of  John  Talbot  that  Captain  Richard  \Yillis  did 
make  him  make  brick  for  seaven  weeks  and  getting  Bark  every 
year  but  one,  contrary  to  his  Indentures/' — Middlesex  county, 
Decemher  15,  1692. 

In  the  account  against  the  estate  of  Mr.  Robert  Booth,  "To 
John  Kingston  for  making  and  burning  of  Brick,  7£/' — York 
County  Records,  May  24,  1G92. 

In  the  will  of  Robert  Vaulx,  of  Westmoreland,  we  read  :  "Ttem. 
I  desire  the  Bricks  now  made  at  the  Ruins,  together  with  the 
shells,  may  be  burnt  immediately,  and  if  the  child  my  wife  now 
goes  with  be  a  Boy  that  my  executors  hereafter  named  rebuild 
the  house  out  of  the  profits  of  my  estate  as  soon  as  may  be,  and 
if  the  child  my  wife  now  Tvith  be  a  girl  and  she  is  inclinable  to  re- 
build the  house  and  be  at  the  third's  expense,  I  desire  my  execu- 
tors to  pay  the  other  third,  and  to  have  the  plank  sawed  by  my 
sawyers  at  Brereton's  Xeck."    Proved  March  26,  1755. 

Elections. — Many  writers,  especially  Northern  writers,  rep- 
resent the  elective  franchise  as  very  confined  in  Virginia  during 
the  colonial  days.  But  this  is  not  true.  Till  1670  universal  suf- 
frage prevailed,  and  while  in  that  year  the  franchise  was  re- 
stricted to  householders  and  freeholders,  the  suffrage  remained 
practically  unchanged,  since  the  law  did  not  define  the  freehold 
until  1736.  At  the  time  of  the  Revolution  twice  as  many  voted 
in  Virginia  as  in  Massachusetts.  The  power  of  the  aristocracy 
depended  upon  compliance  with  the  popular  will.  In  Massachu- 
setts, the  town  meeting  was  governed  by  a  few  aristocrats  who 
continued  officers  indefinitely.  This  difference  gives  the  real 
reason  why  Massachusetts  after  the  Revolution  was  the  seat  of 
the  Federal,  or  aristocratic,  party,  and  why  Virginia  was  the  seat 
of  the  Republican,  or  popular,  party.  Jefferson  did  not  make 
Virginia  society;  he  was  the  best  expression  of  it.  The  aristoc- 
racy of  Virginia  in  the  eighteenth  centur}'  was  one  of  wigs  and 
powder;  it  had  no  real  authority.  Weeden,  in  his  valuable  ac- 
count of  iSTew  England,  says  that  society  in  Massachusetts  was 
^^democratic  in  form,  but  aristocratic  in  the  substance  of  the 
administration."  It  may  be  said  with  equal  truth  that  Virginia 
society  was  aristocratic  in  form,  but  democratic  in  the  substance 
of  the  administration. 


82  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 


Educatiox. — The  means  of  education  in  Virginia,  which  Mr,  5 

Jefferson  pronounced  phiced  her  "among  the  foremost  of  her  sis-  | 

ter  States  at  the  time  of  the  llevolution/'  has  been  constantly  t 

misrepresented.    Under  the  system  prevailing,  the  counties  were  | 

divided  into  parishes,  and  the  parishes  into  precincts,  to  each  of  ; 

which  were  assigned  appropriate  officers.  x\s  all  ministers  were 
required  to  be  ordained  by  the  Bishop  of  London,  there  was  a  I 

constant  emigration  to  Virginia  from  the  earliest  date  of  Oxford 
and  Cambridge  scholars  (who  taught  the  parish  schools),  such  as 
did  not  prevail  in  'New  England,  which  had  to  depend  chiefly  | 

upon  their  home  institutions  for  teachers.  The  county  courts 
and  parish  vestries  exercised  a  jealous  supervision  over  poor  and 
indigent  children,  and  had  them  properly  cared  for.     Many  in-  \ 

stances  of  their  intervention  have  already  been  published,  but  the 
reader  is  now  referred  to  Mr.  Churchill  Gibson  Chamberlayne's  i 

published  Vestry  and  Begister  of  Bristol  Parish  (1729-1787) 
for  numerous  accessible  instances  of  compliance  with  "what  the 
law  directed"  as  to  binding  out  poor  children.    The  law  required  | 

the  apprentice  to  be  taught  "reading  and  writing"  in  every  case. 
In  the  background  stood  the  county  courts  and  the  grand  juries,  % 

who  commanded  the  vestries  and  punished  them  for  any  neglect 
of  duty,  and  often  took  the  matter  of  education  into  their  ovm 
hands.  ^ 

The  following  orders  may  serve  as  examples  of  thousands  of  \ 

similar  orders  which  abound  in  the  county  books :  j 

August  10,  1719.    Eobert,  yo  son  of  young  Cuba,  a  free  negro  vroman,  f 

is  bound  to  Mr.  Edward  Carter  till  he  is  tw^enty-one  years  of  age,  and  the  | 

said  Carter  is  to  find  him  suitable  maintenance  in  his  services  and  to  \ 

cause  him  to  be  taught  to  read  and  write,  and  at  ye  end  of  his  time  to  \ 

give  him  a  good  suit  of  clothes.   [Lancaster  County.)  j 

Mary  Collins  is  bound  to  William  Chilton  till  she  come  to  ye  Age  of  \ 

Eighteen  years,  and  ye  sd  William  Chilton  is  obliged  to  cause  her  to  be  | 

taught  to  reade  the  Bible  well  and  to  provide  her  clothes,  dyett  and 
lodging  and  cause  her  to  be  learned  such  housewifely  exercises  as  may  - 

tend  to  her  future  advantage  and  att  ye  expiration  of  her  time  to  give 
her  what  by  Law  is  due  to  Import  sevts.     [Lancaster  County.) 

.  June  10,  1719.  Josias  Conway,  son  of  Lazarus  Conway,  deced,  an 
orphan  aged  seven  years,  is  by  the  court  bound  unto  jNEiles  Walters,  his 
Exra  and  adra^a  until  he  shall  attaine  ye  age  of  21.  The  said  Miles  Wal- 
ters obliging  himself  to  teach  him  or  cause  him  to  be  taught  to  reade 
and  write  during  the  said  time,  and  also  the  trade  of  a  cooper,  and  at  the 
expiration  of  his  time  to  pay  and  allow  him  as  is  provided  servants  Im- 
ported by  Indenture  or  custorae.  [Lancaster  County.) 


•   .  Tricks  of  Merchaxts.  83 

TRICKS  OF  MERCHAXTS. 

Virginia  was  first  settled  by  sharp-witted  people  from  the  Eng- 
lish cities,  who  came  over  for  trade.  A  Dutch  ship-captain,  De 
Vries  holds  this  language  in  reference  to  them  in  1642  : 

The  English  there  [in  Virginia]  are  very  hospitable,  but  they  are 
not  proper  persons  to  trade  with.  You  must  look  out  when  you  trade 
with  them,  Peter  is  always  by  Paul,  or  you  will  be  struck  in  the  tail; 
for  if  they  can  deceive  any  one  they  account  it  among  themselves  a  Ro- 
man action.  They  say  in  their  language  "He  played  him  an  English 
trick,"  and  then  they  have  themselves  esteemed. 

A  writer  about  1G90  thus  paid  his  compliments  to  the  people 
of  Massachusetts,  along  the  same  line :  * 

The  people  are  naturally  courteous,  affable  and  obliging,  but  for  the 
generality  of  them  that  are  of  the  gathered  churches,  their  Religion  spoils 
them,  makes  them  morose  and  unsociable,  proud  and  conceited,  looking 
on  others  as  mean,  abject  creatures  who  deserve  their  pity  rather  than 
their  company. 

In  their  dealings  they  are  very  crafty  and  subtle,  outdoing  even  Jews 
themselves,  who  (as  I  heard  one  of  those  X.  E.  men  boasting  say)  could 
not  live  among  them.  They  are  watchful  of  all  advantages  over  thera 
that  they  deal  with,  and  when  they  have  a  man  within  their  clutches 
gripe  him  unmercifully. 

The  wooden  nutmegs  of  Connecticut  have  been  often  men- 
tioned as  proof  of  the  mercantile  craft  of  that  enterprising  State. 
But  the  following  extract  from  the  will  of  Lewis  Morris,  of  Mor- 
risania,  father  of  Gouverneur  Morris  (made  November  19,  IT 60, 
and  recorded  in  the  surrogate's  office  of  the  county,  of  Xew  York) 
is  quite  as  suggestive,  and  is  not  so  familiar : 

*  *  *  It  is  ray  desire  that  my  son  Gouverneur  Morris  may  have 
the  best  education  that  is  to  be  had  in  England  or  America,  but  my  ex- 
press will  and  Directions  are  that  he  be  never  sent  for  that  purpose  to 
the  Colony  of  Connecticut  least  he  should  imbibe  in  his  youth  that  low 
craft  and  cunning  so  encident  to  the  people  or  that  country  which  is  so 
interwoven  in  their  constitutions  that  all  their  art  cannot  disguise  it 
from  the  world,  tho'  many  of  them  under  the  sanctified  Garb  of  Religion 

have  endeavored  to  empose  themselves  on  the  world  for  honest  men. 
*     *     * 

How  merchants  were  regarded  in  England  by  the  rural  gentrv' 
is  shown  by  the  following  from  one  of  Edmund  Burke's  speeches : 

"Do  not  talk  to  me  of  a  merchant;  the  merchant  is  the  same  in  every 
part  of  the  world — his  gold  his  god,  his  invoice  his  country,  his  ledger 
his  Bible,  his  desk  his  altar,  the  exchange  his  church,  and  he  has  faith 
in  none  but  his  banker." 

*  Perry's  Uistorical  Collections,  Massachusetts. 


T 


84  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  | 

> 

Virginians  had  lost  their  mercantile  character  at  the  heginning 
of  the  nineteenth  century,  and  till  lately  they  did  not  admire 
merchants.  iit 

R.  H.  Lee  said  that  **the  spirit  of  commerce  throughout  the  * 

world  is  a  spirit  of  avarice."  In  his  message  to  the  Legislature 
in  1810,  Governor  Tyler  said:  "Commerce  is  certainly  beneficial 
to  society  in  a  secondary  degree,  but  it  produces  also  what  is 
called  citizens  of  the  world — the  worst  citizens  in  the  world — 
M'ho,  having  no  attachment  to  any  country,  make  themselves 
wings  to  ily  away  from  impending  dangers."  ^ 

With  the  destruction  of  negro  slavery,  the  Virginians  seem  to  i 

be  gradually  losing  their  rustic  simplicity  and  returning  to  the  I 

worldly  character  of  the  first  English  settlers.    The  country  dis-  '\ 

tricts  are  in  a  measure  being  deserted  and  the  towns  are  building  r 

up.  They  do  not  say  now  in  Virginia  that  "they  played  a  man 
an  English  trick,"  but  the  "Virginia  Yankee"  is  a  common  r 

phrase  to  designate  a  money-making  man.  »l 


i 

LETTERS  OF  HUME  FAMILY.  | 

{&ee  Vol.  VI.,  page  2.51.)  | 

George  Hume  came  to  Virginia  in  1721.    His  father  was  Laird  George  ^j, 

Hume,  of  Wedderburn  Castle,  Berwickshire,  Scotland,  who  died  in  1720.  f 

He  had  married   October  4,   1G95,  Margaret,  daughter  of   Sir  Patrick  i 

Hume,  of  Lumsden.  and  of  this  marriage  there  survived  him  six  sons,  i^ 

namely,  David,  who  succeeded  him  as  Laird,  and  died  without  issue  in  *' 

1764;    George,  Patrick,  Francis,  John  and  James,  and  three  daughters,  ■ 

Margaret,  Isabell  (who  married  a  cousin,  Ninian  Hume,  of  Jardensfield),  |  : 

and  Jane,  who  married  Kcv.  John  Todd,  of  "Lady  Kirk."  i  I 

George,  the  second  of  the  six  sons,  is  the  progenitor  of  our  family  in  Y 

America,  and  the  only  one  who  married  and  left  issue.     He  was  born  % 

at  Wedderburn  Castle,  near  Berwick,  on  the  Tweed,  Berwickshire,  Scot-  '- 

land,  May  30,  1G97,  aijd  came  to  Orange  county,  Va.,  in  1721,  and 
engaged  in  land  surveying  as  an  occupation,  the  bond  given  being  on 
record  in  Orange  Court-house.  He  married  Elizabeth  Proctor,  of  Fred- 
ericksburg, Va.,  in  172S,  and  died  in  17G0,  leaving  six  children,  all  sons. 
As  surveyor  of  Sp/3tsylvania  county  he  made  the  first  survey  of  the  pres- 
ent city  of  Fredericksburg  {Hening's  Stats.  V.,  p.  197).  His  uncle,  Fran- 
cis Hume,  fought  on  the  side  of  the  Pretender,  and  was  one  of  the  politi- 
cal prisoners  sold  in  Virginia  in  1716,  after  the  battle  of  "Preston 
Pans."     He  became  factor  for  Governor  Spotswood.      (See  Quabtesly 


Letters  of  George  Hume.  85 

Letter  of  Jas.  Hurae  on  board  his  ship;  Hastin;?s,  York  River,  June  y« 
24tii,  1743,  to  his  brother  George  Plume — Virginia.  He  was  killed 
on  board  the  Fire  Ship  Pluto  in  1758,  in  tlie  first  cruize  he  made 
after  he  was  made  commander  of  the  vessel: 

Hastings,  York  River,  June  y  24^^  1743. 

D'  B^ — I  have  y^  pleasure  to  acquaint  you  that  we  arrived  here 
on  Tuesday  last.  I  had  some  thoughts  before  our  arrival  to  have 
'done  myself  the  pleasure  of  waiting  on  you,  but  am  obliged  to 
give  over  that  thought  at  present,  for  we  have  had  a  long  passage, 
•and  y*  ship  wants  a  good  dale  of  overhauling  amongst  the  rig- 
ging, and  it  is  impossible  for  me  to  be  spared,  and  Capt°  Dan- 
'dridge  being  the  senior  Capf  is  in  great  hurry  to  have  us  out 
again.  We  are  to  relieve  y®  St,  Sea  Castle  and  to  be  stationed 
liere  some  time.  If  it  suits  with  your  convaniency  I  should  be 
glad  to  have  y®  happiness  of  seeing  you  here. 

There  is  no  news  of  particular  worth  mentioning  till  we  have 
the  pleasure  of  meeting,  any  further  than  all  friends  are  well, 
John  excepted,  but  he  is  much  the  better  of  going  to  Scotland. 
1  am  Your  most  aff^  Broy"",  Jas.  Hume. 

P.  S. — If  you  should  write  to  me,  direct  to  Lieut,  of  his  Maj^* 
'Ship  Hastings,  York.  "We  have  brought  a  ver}'  good  prize  with 
lis. 


Xetter  of  Jas.  Hume,  on  board  his  ship  in  Hampton  Roads,  to  his  brother 
George  Hume — Virginia.    April  ye  17tb,  1744: 

Hastings,  Hampto^^  Road,  April  y^  17*^  1744. 
D^  B^oy^ — I  have  y^  pleasure  to  acquaint  you  we  arr.d  here 
from  Antegua  y^  13th  inst.  in  15  daj't'  passage.  I  have  some 
thoughts  of  being  in  Williamsburgh  soon,  but  if  I  should  not 
liave  an  opportunity,  I  shall  be  glad  to  see  you  abd.  You'll  hear 
when  you  come  to  the  court  whether  we  are  gone  a  cruize  or  not. 
I  have  nothing  particular  any  farther  than  we  had  not  the  good 
fortune  to  meet  w^'^  an}i:hing  since  our  departure  from  this 
place.    Jack  is  well  and  desires  his  duty  to  you  all.    I  am 

Your  most  aff'  Broy'',     ^  Jas.  Hu:sie. 

P.  S. — I  have  heard  nothing  of  the  bear  skin  you.  sent  to  Mr. 
Dixon,  he  being  in  y^  country.  I  desire  when  you  come  down 
you'll  bring  y^  Ginsang  and  different  sorts  of  snake  roots.  If  we 
rshould  be  gone  out  send  them  to  Mr.  Charles  at  York. 


86  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

Letter  of  Jas.  Hume,  on  board  his  ship  in  Hampton  Roads,  to  his  brotlier 
G.  Hume  in  Virginia.    June  24,  1744: 

Hastings,  Hampton  Road,  June  y®  24**^,  1744. 
D^  Broy'". — I  rcc^  yours  of  y®  13th  instant.  The  ship  is  going 
up  to  Norfolk  TO  heave  down,  but  there's  a  sloop  fitting  out  for  a 
privateer  to  guard  y®  coast  till  y®  ship  come  down  again,  and  she 
is  to  be  manned  out  of  our  ship's  company,  and  I  believe  I  shall 
command  her,  but  I  intend  to  leave  Jno.  abd  in  order  to  go  to 
school  at  Norfolk,  w^^  I  think  is  much  better  than  going  to  sea 
in  a  small  vessel  w*^  me.  If  you  can  have  a  good  opportunity  you 
may  send  y®  snake  roots  and  Ginsang;  if  not,  bring  it  yourself, 
as  you  promised  Lord  Banff  some;  let  it  be  put  up  from  mine, 
and  if  you  should  come  down  and  I  may  be  gone  to  sea  in  y® 
sloop,  you'll  be  sure  to  see  Jno.  at  Norfolk,  and  likewise  the  rest 
of  y®  gentlemen,  who  will  be  glad  to  see  you,  and  leave  what  snake 
roots  and  ginsang  3^011  intend  for  me  at  Mrs.  Bordland's  in 
Hampton,  as  I  shall  be  once  a  month  or  five  weeks  there.  The 
gentlemen  of  the  mess  desire  their  comp*^  to  you.  John  desires 
his  duty  to  you  and  Mother,  and  love  to  his  Brothers.     I  am 

Your  most  aff^  Broy'",  Jas.  Hume.* 

This  sloop  is  to  be  fitted  out  at  the  expense  of  the  colony,  but 
manned  and  victualed  bv  the  Kinsr. 

*  This  brother  James  was  killed  in  the  spring  of  1758,  comnianding- 
the  Fire  Ship  Pluto,  whilst  engaging  a  French  letter  of  marque  ship  in 
the  bay  of  Biscay. 


Letter  of  George  Hume  to  his  sister  Isabell,  the  wife  of  Ninian  Home  ; 

Dear  Sister  Isabell  :  I  had  the  favour  of  a  letter  from  yon 
by  James  Hunter,  dated  y^  22"*^  of  March,  1747.  I  sent  you  an 
answer,  but  have  had  none  from  you  since.  You  cannot  but  have 
opportunities  enough  and  should  be  glad  to  hear  from  you,  how 
you  are,  as  also  all  enqr.  friends.  Am  glad  to  hear  you  are  so 
well  settled  at  home,  and  w^^  I  hope  will  be  your  satisfaction,  and 
I  imagine  by  this  time  our  Broy^  Jno.  is  also  settled  at  home, 
and  also  glad  to  hear  our  mother  is  so  well,  who  I  am  certain 
must  be  old  and  infirm  by  y^  time.  The  county  I  live  in  was 
divided  last  Assembly,  and  y®  part  I  live  in  is  called  Culpeper, 
y®  other  of  Orange  still,  wherefore  direct  for  me  living  in  y^  fork 


Letters  of  George  Hume.  87 

of  Rappahannock  river,  Culpeper  county,  Virginia.  I  am  very 
well  and  in  good  health,  however  I  find  myself  fail  and  not  able 
to  walk  the  mountains  as  I  have  done.  I  have  had  so  much  cold 
and  endured  so  much  hardships  over  our  mountains  it  .will  make 
old  whether  I  will  or  not.  Pray  remember  me  to  all  friends  as 
enquire  after  me.    I  am  Your  aU^*^  B'',  G,  hume. 


Letter  of  George  Hume,  of  Virginia,  to  his  brother,  Doctor  Jno.  Hume, 
Wedderburn,  Berwickshire,  Scotland,  who  was  a  surgeon  in  the 
British  Navy: 

Dear  Brother:    I  understood  by  Willie  Hunter  you  wrote 
by  him  last  year  to  me,  but  he,  not  knowing  who  I  was,  and  y® 

letter  being  directed  to  me  living  in  Rap",  gave  it  to  y® ,  who 

carried  it  around  to ,  y*  after  all  y^  inquir}^  I  could  not  make 

out  nor  hear  of  it,  though  should  have  been  heartily  glad  to  have 
heard  from  you.  May  you  let  me  hear  from  you  by  y^  first  oppor- 
tunity, and  pray  let  me  know  how  all  was  at  home,  and  if  our  old 
mother  is  alive,  and  how  all  affairs  stand,  which  would  be  a  very 
great  satisfaction  to  me  at  such  a  distance.  I  have  no  news  ta 
vnite  to  you,  only  I  am  hoping  this  will  find  you  and  all  my 
Broyrs  and  sisters  in  y^  same  condition,  very  well.  Still  travel- 
ling about  in  y®  backwoods  over  our  great  country,  and  it  in- 
creases so  fast,  I  still  find  some  business.  Y^  King^s  business 
were  over  very  slack,  most  of  y®  lands  as  belongs  to  y^  crown  be- 
ing surveyed,  but  have  got  into  y®  Lord  Fairfax  business,  being 
proprietors  of  y®  N.  ISTeck  of  Virginia,  and  being  now  in  y®  coun- 
try himself,  which  I  hope  will  hold  g"^.  You  will  let  me  hear 
from  you  by  y®  first  opportunity  and  send  your  letters  for  me  to 
Mr.  Jno.  Hunter  in  Duns,  directed  to  the  care  of  Mr.  Wm.  and 
James  Hunter,  merchants  in  Fredericksburg,  Rap"^  River,  Virg*. 
and  I  shall  be  sure  of  them.  I  shall  add  no  more  at  present,  only 
hoping  you  will  let  me  hear  from  you  soon  as  possible  and  re- 
member m.y  duty  to  my  mother  if  alive.  With  love  to  all  my 
brothers  and  sisters,  and  I  remain 

Your  loving  B'',  G.  hu:me. 

Fb"-  r  15^^  1751. 

To   Doctor   Jno.  Hume,  at   Wedderburn,  near    Berwick   on 
Tweed. 


88  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

Letter  of  George  Hume,  of  Culpeper  county,  Va.,  Au^'ust  22n'i,  1754,  to 
his  brother,  Capt  Jno.  Hume,  directed  to  Wedderburn,  Scotland,  who 
was  in  the  British  Xavy,  and  died  August  SO^h,  1758. 

Dear  Bro^'":  I  take  y^  opportunity  to  let  you  know  we  are  all 
well  only  I  am  grown  so  crazy,  no  more  fit  to  go  in  the  back- 
woods; our  country  is  so  far  back  settled  that  we  are  obliged  to 
go  above  100  miles  before  I  can  come  to  work.  I  am  so  broke  by 
y«  hardships  I  have  endured  in  lying  in  y^  backwoods  that  we  are 
obliged  to  go,  also  have  lost  my  sight  so  far  that  without  specta- 
cles I  scarce  discern  y^  degrees  of  my  compass  y*  it  kills  me  to 
travel  so  far  and  over  such  mountains  as  you  know  we  have,  and 
of  late  have  been  very  much  afflicted  by  old  colds  and  lying  out 
so  much  w^^  now  begins  to  come  upon  me.  When  James  was  in 
y®  county  I  was  always  telling  him  I  used  to  go  to  y®  Branches 
of  Mississippy  to  survey  land  there,  and  he  used  to  laugh  at  me, 
thinking  it  impossible,  as  I  believe  however  it  has  now  proved 
true,  for  we  have  at  last  met  w*^  y^  French.  A  parcel  of  gentlemen 
who  have  got  a  grant  from  y^  king  for  a  great  deal  of  land  in  this 
a  branch  of  Mississippy  and  last  spring  built  a  fort  on  this  river. 
Y®  French  let  y™  alone  till  finished,  then,  came  and  took  posses- 
sion without  bloodshed,  but  before  that  I  do  not  understand  any 
damage  to  our  back  settlers,  only  built  forts  I  suppose  to  stop  us 
from  coming  any  nearer,  we  thinking  the  land  belongs  to  us,  and 
they  think  it  belongs  y^.  And  there  was  a  great  noise  went  about 
th^  French  were  coming  upon  us.  Several  young  men  listed 
themselves,  beat  up  for  volnteers,  and  I  believe  got  about  or 
near  400  in  Virg^,  who  went  out  against  y^  French,  and  at  the 
same  time  raised  an  army  also,  and  some  time  since  about  y®  end 
of  May  last  a  party  of  our  soldiers  met  with  a  party  of  the 
French-  I  am  informed  by  y^  French  prisoners  whom  I  saw, 
there  were  35  of  y™,  and  32  of  our  men,  besides  some  of  our 
indiaps  had  a  skirmish,  and  I  understand  our  men  killed  9  of  y* 
French,  one  got  away  and  y®  rest  they  took  prisoners  and  sent 
down  to  Williamsburg,  and  we  only  lost  one  man.  Our  men 
built  a  fort  on  y^  same  river  Ohio  as  the  French  and  some  dis- 
tance from  theirs,  wherein  our  men  lay  apd  I  imagine  intended 
to  lay  by  for  some  more  recruits,  being  far  inferior  in  numbers  to 
J*  French.  \Ye  had  I  believe  some  come  from  Xew  York,  and 
2  or  3  hundred  from  Carolina,  who  were  to  go  under  the  com- 
mand of  one  Col.  Ennes,  a  Scotsman  from  Carolina,  who  was  to 


Letters  of  George  Hume.  89 

be  chief  commander,  but  before  they  got  out  to  our  army  y* 
French  set  on  ours  and  have  quite  beat  y^  with  a  great  slaughter 
on  both  sides.     Our  men  behaved  very  we]],  but  being  so  far 

inferior  in  numbers  to  y®  French,  tliey  being to  be  good 

and  but  betvreen  3  or  400  men  were  obliged  to  yield,  quit  y^  field, 
make  peace  for  one  year,  and  none  of  us  to  go  over  y^  Alleghany 
mountains,  which  they  say  belongs  to  y®  King  of  France,  Since 
what  will  be  y^  event  I  know  not  yet.  That  lam  obliged  to  give 
out  going  so  far,  I  content  myself  with  a  little  business  about 
home,  for  unless  I  were  to  move  2  or  3  hundred  miles  further 
back,  it  would  not  be  worth  my  while  to  move,  and  y'^  is  what  I 
can  not  think  of  doing  if  I  can  make  any  other  shift.  I  have 
taken  your  advice  about  my  sons.  I  haye  two  now  of  age.  Geo. 
and  Francis.  Geo.  follows  my  business  however,  he  is  very  care- 
ful and  industrious,  but  unless  he  goes  3  or  400  miles  back  it  v\'ill 
not  be  worth  his  while,  tho  he  works  now  for  me  and  I  am  in 
hopes  he  will  do  well.  Francis  is  the  planter  and  I  am  in  hopes 
he  will  do  well.  xA.s  for  John  I  am  in  hopes  he  may  do  well 
enough,  but  I  could  never  persuade  him  to  go  in  a  merchant  ship 
though,  he  never  will,  and  the  capt^  as  brought  him  in  offered 
him  his  mates  place  if  he  would  go  home  again  with  him,  but  he 
would  not  go  and  still  wants  to  be  in  a  King's  ship.  I  have  3 
younger  sons,  no  daughters.  Am  glad  to  hear  our  Moth'^  holds  it 
so  well.  Pray  give  my  duty  to  her,  with  my  respects  to  y^  Doctor 
and  Laird.    I  am  Your  most  affectionate  Brother, 

G.  HUME. 

Culpepper  Co.,  Virg\  Aug.  22°^  1754. 

P.  S. — Should  be  glad  to  hear  from  James  or  in  what  place 
or  nation  he  is  in. 

Our  assembly  are  soon  sitting  I  believe  chiefly  on  y'  occurrence, 
if,  we  'shall  soon  hear.  I  have  no  oy*"  ne^s  to  tell  you — money  is 
so  sc^ce  it  is  a  rare  thing  to  see  a  dollar,  and  at  publick  places 
where  great  monied  men  will  bet  on  cock  fights,  horse  races, 
etc.,  y*  noise  is  not  now  as  it  used  to  be — one  pistol  to  2  or  3  pis- 
toles to  one— it  is  now  common  cry  2  cows  and  calves  to  one  or  3 
to  one  or  sometimes  4  hogsheads  tob°  to  one  and  y^  gives  no  price, 
so  I  do  not  know  how  we  shall  maintain  a  war,  y*  French  very 
much  y*  advantage  of  us.  G.  hume. 

To  Capt°  Jno.  Hume,  at  Wedderburn.  Politeness  to  the  care 
of  Mr.  John  Hunter,  merchant  in  Duns,  Scotland. 


90  Willia:m  axd  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

Letter  of  N.  Hume,  who  married  Isabell  Hume,  sister  of  George  Hume, 
of  Virginia.     January  30,  1759: 

Braxtox,  Jan'^  30^^  1759. 

Dear  Sir:  I  have  the  pleasure  of  both  your  letters — one  of 
AugS  1757, 1  rec*^  a  year  after  y®  date.  Am  sorry  to  tell  you  that 
James  was  killed  in  spring  last  engaging  a  French  letter  of 
marque  ship  in  the  bay  of  Biscay ;  it  was  hard  to  be  killed  in  his 
first  cruize  and  just  when  life  became  tolerable  to  him.  I  am 
suie  he  dearly  earned  what  he  got  and  think  he  merited  a  better 
fate,  but  that  nowadays  is  too  little  minded — poor  man,  he  is 
^one  and  I  hope  is  happy. 

Your  brother,  the  Capt°,  who  had  been  long  afilicted  with,  the 
^out,  died  30^^  of  Aug.  last.  Can  not  inform  you  how  they  set- 
tled their  aifairs,  as  none  of  your  brothers  spoke  to  me  of  it. 
Lady  Wedderburn  looks  as  well  as  she  has  come  twenty  years 
past — walks  upon  crutches,  occasioned  by  a  fall  she  got  about 
three  years  agoe.  The  Laird  has  been  dangerously  ill  of  a  fever 
— is  now  seemingly  well,  but  recovers  his  strength  slovrly.  The 
Doctor  is  but  tender — keeps  his  health  pretty  well  by  care  and 
regular  living.  This  is  a  melancholy  subject  which  I  sincerely 
s}TD.pathize  with  you  in.  I  delivered  my  cousin's  letter  to  his 
sister,  which  she  has  answered.  ^ly  family  I  hope  are  all  well, 
but  dispersed.  Ninian  has  been  settled  in  St.  Christopher's  these 
three  years  past.  George  is  following  out  his  business  as  a 
writer,  have  got  him  appointed  commisar  of  Landes,  tho  of  small 
profit  may  be  a  means  to  bring  him  into  business.  My  oldest 
daughter  has  been  with  her  grandmother  this  four  years  past. 
Have  y^  young  boy  Frank  and  two  daughters  at  home.  I  regret 
jour  situation  in  time  of  war,  but  hope  you  are  now  safe,  and  if 
the  next  campaign  be  as  successful  as  the  last,  I  hope  the  French 
will  be  driven  out  of  American — at  least  will  be  confined  within 
very  narrow  limits.  xiU  your  friends  at  Edin^^  are  well.  My 
two  youngest  brothers,  David  and  Tom,  have  been  very  luckee — 
the  first  has  been  but  about  three  or  four  years  in  the  army,  and 
has  now  a  troop  in  the  Scots  Grays,  now  in  Germany;  the  other 
is  a  Leftenant  in  the  Scots  fusilers  at  Gibralter.  The  Doctor  reC^ 
yours  of  Aug.,  1757,  and  I  hear  honoured  your  Draft.  You  are 
no  higher  taxed  than  we  are  in  this  country — fourteen  millions 
here  to  be  raised  for  the  service  of  the  current  year.     My  wife 


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Marriage  Bonds  in  Goochland  County.  91 

would  have  wrote  by  this  opportunity,  but  delayed  it  until  an- 
other. Shall  always  be  glad  to  hear  of  you  and  family^s  well 
being.    I  am 

Your  most  ob*^  serv^,  I^.  Ho:me. 


MARRIAGE  BONDS  IX  GOOCIILAXD  COUXTY. 

[Continued  from  Vol.  VII.,  p.  i-OSr) 

December  24,  '81.  Martin  Palmer  to  Elizabeth  Powers;  sec., 
Maddison  Powers.    Wm.  Powers  consents  to  daus.  m'ge. 

October  23,  '85.  Edwai^  Houchens  to  Xancy  Clements;  sec, 
Jesse  Clements. 

August  15,  '85.  Wm.  Poore  to  Judith  Sampson;  sec,  Wm. 
Sampson. 

July  4,  '88.  Wm.  Hatcher  to  Jane  L.  Mayo;  sec,  Robert 
Mayo. 

October  17,  '83.  Wm.  Redford  to  Susanna  Ellis;  sec.  Archer 
Pledge. 

December  18,  '82.  Matthew  Xightingale  to  Judith  Perkins; 
sec,  Maddison  Powers. 

April  16,  '84.  Howell  Lewis  to  Anne  Boiling;  sec,  Robert. 
Lewis,  Jun. ;  witn.,  John  Boiling,  Jr.,  John  Woodson,  Jr.  John 
Boiling  consents  to  dau's  m'ge. 

x^ugust  30,  '81.  David  Mullins  to  Rosanna  Herndon;  sec, 
James  William. 

March  17,  '82.  David  Mitchell  to  Betzsy  Cosby;  sec,  Geo. 
Payne. 

September  28,  '8o.  Joseph  Green  to  Lydia  Wood;  sec, 
Stephen  Crouch.  . 

October  17,  '84.  David  Xowlin  to  Ann  Powell;  sec,  Daniel 
Arton.    WilHam  Powell  consents  to  dau's  m'ge. 

February  19,  '86.  John  Rountree  to  Lucy  Gordon ;  sec,  John 
•Gordon,  who  writes  consents  for  his  dau.,  and  Randall  Rountree, 
who  consents  for  his  son. 

February  7, 1787.  Robert  Poor  to  Eliza  Mimms;  sec,  Gideon 
Mimms. 

|/^May  29,  '87.     Isaac  Robinson  to  Elizabeth  Wingneld;    sec, 
T)aniel  Clark. 

October  30,  '87.    Robert  Scott  to  Tabitha  Hopper. 


92  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

September  23,  '8G.  Win.  Anderson  to  Martha  Hancock;  sec, 
George  Hancock  X- 

August  21,  '8G.  Daniel  Trabue  to  Elizabeth  Farrar;  sec.,  Will 
Farrar. 

May  10,  '86.  Robert  Lewis,  Jr.,  to  Mary  G.  Bryce  [dau.  of 
Archibald  Brice,  a  Scotch  merchant] ;  sec,  Andrew  Ware.  [Rob- 
ert Lewis  was  son  of  Col.  Robert  Lewis,  of  *'The  Byrd.^'] 

September  29,  '8G.  Xathaniel  Parrish  to  Martha  Clarkson; 
sec,  Anson  Clarkson. 

June  18,  '87.  W^m.  Martin  to  Ann  Green;  sec,  Sherrard  Par- 
rish. 

December  18,  '8G.  Meredith  Parrish  X  to  Eliza  Curtis; 
sec,  Sherrard  Parrish. 

November  17,  '86.  Jesse  Holbrook  to  Susanna  Meanley;  sec, 
Peter  Walker. 

May  7,  '87.  Wm.  Richards  to  Judith  Martin;  sec,  Wm.  Mar- 
tin. 

June  15,  '8G.  Gwathney  Dabney  to  Elizabeth  Maddox;  sec, 
Tarleton  Payne.    James  Maddox  writes  consent  to  dau's  m  ge. 

January  10,  '86.  Burwell  Baugh  to  Betsy  Neves;  sec,  Geo. 
Payne. 

December  12,  '86.  Thomas  Railey  to  Martha  Woodson;  sec, 
Matthew  Pleasants. 

July  8, '86.  George  Dromwright  to  Eliza  Riddle;  sec.  Archer 
Riddle. 

October  2,  '86.  Mitchell  Martin  to  Jennie  Clark;  sec,  Wm. 
Martin.  "^ 

November  27,  '87.  David  Carroll  to  Sally  Carroll;  sec,  Wm. 
Clarke. 

October  24,  '87.  Matthew  Johnson  to  Mary  Mantle;  sec, 
Elisha  Leake. 

-     May  14,  '87.    Smith  Payne  to  Margaret  B.  Payne ;  sec,  W.  N. 
Woodson. 

June  9,  '87.  Francis  Blankenship  to  Polly  Woolbanks;  sec, 
John  Clements. 

May  7,  '87.  Richard  McCary  to  Nancy  Martin;  sec,  Wm. 
Martin. 

August  16,  '86.  Nicholas  Crutchfield  X  to  Sarah  Williams; 
sec,  Charles  Nuckolls. 


Marriage  Bonds  in  Goochland  County.  9" 

July  4,  '86.  Moses  Hjcks  to  Eliza  Johnson;  sec,  ^lesliacli 
Hicks.  ^ 

December  17,  *87.  Stephen  Mallory  to  Mary  Banks;  sec, 
Gwatlmey  Dabney. 

January  30,  '87.    Jesse  Clark  to  Lucy  Willis ;  sec,  Wm.  Willis. 

October  9,  '87.  Daniel  McCoy  to  Jane  Parrish;  sec,  Wm. 
Burgess.  '""-'- --_ - — — 

December  13,  '87.  Thomas  Bernard  to  Elizabeth  Laprade, 
dau.  John  Laprade. 

December  8,  '85.  Kobert  Bradshaw  to  Mary  Bradshaw;  sec, 
John  Bradshaw. 

July  18,  '85.    Wm.  Webber's  bond  as  minister  of  the  Gospel. 

Januar}^  23,  '85.  John  Smither  to  Agatha  PajTie ;  sec,  Wm. 
George;  Agatha  Payne's  consent  for  daughter. 

July  18,  '85.  Eeuben  Ford's  bond  as  minister  of  the  Gospel 
(Baptist  church). 

December  15,  '83.  Wm.  Saunders  to  Sally  Crow;  sec,  ^lat- 
thew  Yaughan. 

N'ovember  15,  '84.  Lewis  Shaudoin  (Baptist  preacher)  to 
Kitty  Mimms;   sec,  Gideon  Mimms. 

September  26,  '80.     Wm.  Lee,  of  Northumberland  to  Jane 
Pa}Tie,  dau.  of  John  Payne,  elder,  who  writes  consent. 
•     March  17,  1782.     ISTathaniel  Harris  to  Mary  Howard;    sec, 
Wm.  Hix. 

October  16,  1780.  Anderson  Peers  to  Judith  Laprade;  sec, 
Strangeman  Hutchins.    John  Laprade's  consent  to  dau's  m'ge. 

July  3, '88.    John  Lee  to  Jane  Tuggle ;  sec,  Henry  Tuggle. 

October  26,  '85.  Wm.  Williams  X  to  Canadace  Meeks;  sec, 
Wm.  Yineset  X- 

April  28,  'SO.  Howell  Lewis  to  Betsy  Coleman;  sec,  Eobert 
Coleman,  Howell  Lewis,  of  Granville  county,  Xorth  Carolina, 
consents  for  son,  and  certifies  him  21  years  2  April,  1780. 

December  18,  1788.  Edward  Willis  to  Susanna  Smith;  sec, 
George  Payne. 

April  8,  'S3.  Peter  Walker  to  Lienor  Clarke;  sec,  Thomas 
•Hodges.  """ 

April  15,  '85.  Johnson  Hodges  X  to  Eliz.  Mulles;  sec, 
George  PavTie.    Willoiigliby  ^lulles  consents  for  dau.. 

December  18,  1780.  David  Jarratt  to  Anna  Wade;  sec,  Dev- 
ereux  Jarratt.  '^ 


94  WiLLiAivr  AND  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

November  21,  'So.  Baxter  Folkcs  to  Susanna  Webber;  sec, 
Philip  Webber. 

December  11,  '80.  David  M.  liandolph' to  Mary  Randolph; 
sec.,  Brett  Randolph.  Thomas  M.  Randolph  consents  to  dau's 
m'ge,  and  that  David  M.  Randolph  was  21  March,  1780. 

January  23,  '81.    James  Davenport  to  Mary  Rutherford,  dau. 
Wm.  Rutherford,  who  is  security. 
^'    March  21,  '85.    John  Thompson  to  Sarah  Strong;   sec,  John 
Strong. 

November  21,  '85.  Jesse  Redd  to  Mary  Woodson;  sec.,  Mat- 
thew Woodson. 

August  18,  1788.  Wm.  Johnson  X  to  Susanna  Holland;  sec, 
Edw.  Matthews. 

December  23,  '85.  Benj.  Watkins  to  Anna  Riddle;  sec,  John 
Riddle  ^>Y 

October  11,' '81.  Pleasant  Turner  X  to  Agnes  Woodson;  sec. 
Archer  Pledge. 

December  27,  '81.  John  Farrar  to  Sarah  Harris;  sec,  Barrett 
Farrar.  ^  ' 

January  11,  '88.  Rowling  Pointer  X  to  Rebecca  Walker;  sec, 
Wm.  Perkins  X-    Peter  Walker  consents. 

December  4,  '81.  Larner  Bradshaw  to  Ann  Bradshaw;  sec, 
Geo.  Payne. 

September  17,  '84.  Isham  Railey,  of  Chesterfield  county,  to 
Susanna  Woodson;  sec,  Isham  Woodson.  John.  Woodson  con- 
sents for  dau's  m'ge. 

April  8,  1785.  Richard  Johnson  to  Milly  Walker;  sec,  Sha- 
drach  W^alker, 

August  19,  '82.  Isaac  Pleasants  to  Jane  Pleasants;  sec, 
Archibald  Pleasants. 

September  15,  '88.  Reuben  Cosby  .X  to  Lucy  Alvis;  sec, 
John  Alvis. 

'     December  20,  '84.     Stephen  Southall  to  Martha  Wood;   sec, 
Samuel  Pryor. 

December  20,  '84.  Archibald  Riddle  to  Frances  Massie:  sec, 
James  Robards. 

December  30,  '80.  Nathaniel  Moss  to  Joanna  Johnson;  sec, 
Samuel  Moss. 

.  June  16,  '88.    David  Hudson  to  Mary  Clopton;   sec,  Benja- 
min Clopton. 


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Marriage  Bonds  in  Gooctilvnd  County.  95 

December  24,  '85.  Wm.  Brown  to  Isabel  Herndon;  sec., 
Lewis  Herndon. 

February  17,  1783.  Charles  Johnson,  Jr.,  to  Mary  Ann  Far- 
rar;    sec,  Stephen  Farrar. 

starch  2o,  '89.  Xewton  Curd  to  Elizabeth  Hatcher;  sec,  Ed- 
mund Curd.    Thomas  Hatcher  consents  to  his  dau's  m'ge. 

October  21,  '88.  Benj.  Colvard  to  Mary  George;  sec,  James 
George. 

June  16,  '88.  Peter  Johnston  to  Mary  Wood;  sec,  Stephen 
Southall. 

February  4,  '83.  Stephen  Mayo  to  Ann  Isbell;  sec,  Edw. 
McBride.  ' 

[March  18,  '89.  Turner  Clarke,  Jr.,  to  Eliza  Ann  Cragball; 
5ec,  Isham  Clarke. 

Xovember  25,  '85.  Peter  Walker  to  Elizabeth  Ellis;  sec, 
Eichard  Johnston. 

April  21,  'S3.  Patrick  Yanghan  ta  Mary  Smith;  sec,  Elijah 
Broniield. 

Xovember  25,  '85.  Thomas  Pankey  to  Martha  Cannon;  sec, 
James  Johnson. 

March  8,  '8o.  Thomas  Poor  to  Frances  Matthews;  sec,  Edw. 
Matthews. 

January  12,  '88.  Charles  F.  Payne  to  Polly  Adams;  sec, 
Josiah  Payne.    Thomas  Adams  consents  to  dan's  m'ge. 

October  29,  1784.    Wm.  Stark  to  Elizabeth  Kernear. 

May  16,  1785.  Samuel  Proffit-X  to  Molly  Massie;  sec, 
Charles  Massie. 

November  5,  '83.  Abraham  Pruett  to  Ann  Davison;  sec, 
John  Jouett,  Jr. 

October  25,  '85.  Jolm  Davis  to  Xancy  Walmack;  sec,  Eich- 
ard  Walmack  X.  .      ^ 

October  15,  '84.  Eobert  Pleasants,  Jr.,  to  Elizabeth  Eandolph. 
Thomas  M.  Eandolph  consents  to  dau's  m'ge;  sec,  George 
Pa}Tie. 

December  11,  '85.  Obediah  Prnett  to  Frances  Jarrett;  sec, 
Abraham  Prnitt. 

Xovember  12,  '83.  Hughes  Bowles  to  Mary  Shipp;  sec, 
Lewis  Wilbourne  X- 

Xovember  15,  '83.  John  Kesher  to  Sarah  Parrish;  sec, 
Flemmin<?  Pavne. 


96  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

December  20,  '84.     Benjamin  Johnson  to  Rachel  Pace;    sec., 
'  .y^  Francis  Pace. 

y^"^'  December  27,  '84.     Shadrach  Alvis  X  to  Judith  Hancock; 

/  sec.,  David  Alvis  X-  ' 

February  15, '85.    Charles  liodes  to  Jane  Hopkins;  sec,  John 
'     Martin,  Jr. 

August  19,  '82.    Robert  Farrar  to  Fanny  Woodson;  sec,  Mat- 
thew Woodson. 

October  11,  '85.    John  Saunders  X  to  Anne  Cawthom;   sec, 
James  Whitelock. 

July  22,  1789.    Joseph  Walker  to  Susannah  Willis;  sec,  Zach. 
Alvis.    Ellender  Willis'  letter  of  consent  to  dau's  m'ge. 

July  31,  '87.     George  Walker  ,to  Eliza  Green;    sec,   Wm. 
Walker  X- 

July  19,  ^84.     Perrin  Redford  to  Susanna  Woodson;    sec, 
Joseph  Woodson. 


DAINGERFIELD  FAMILY. 

William^  Daingerfield  patented  land  on  the  Rappahannock 
river  in  Rappahannock  county  in  1667.  He  died  before  1671, 
when  a  grant  was  made  to  John  Daingerfield  on  the  same  river, 
and  in  the  same  county,  for  560  acres  "formerly  granted  to 
Frances  Daingerfield,  the  wife  of  William  Daingerfield,  de- 
ceased." 

(1)  William^  Daingerfield  and  Frances,  his  wife,  had  issue 
(2)  John-  (aged  seventy  in  1701;  deposition  in  Essex  county), 
married  1669-1671*  Anne  Walker,  dau.  of  Col.  John  Walker,  of 
the  Virginia  Council.  She  had  previously  married  John  Pa}-ne 
(son  of  John  Payne) ;  and  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  Payne,  by  this 
marriage  was  wife  of  Henry  Thacker  in  1690.  (Deed  in  Mid- 
'dlesex  county.)  Mrs.  Thacker  in  her  ^vilL  proved  July  6,  1714, 
makes  "brother  [half-brother]  William  Daingerfield  and  son-in- 
law  John  Yivion,"  exors. 

In  1671,  John  Daingerfield,  "in  right  of  his  wife  Anne  and 
Frances  daus.  to  Col.  Walker,  dccefl,"  appealed  to  the  Genei-al 
Court.     Edwin  Conway  married  Sarah  Walker,  another  dau., 

*  In  1009  Sarah  Walker  divided  her  property  between  Col.  John 
Walker's  six  daus.,  Ann  Paine,  Frances,  Jane,  Elizabeth,  Sarah,  Easter, 
and  her  son  Henry  and  dau.  Mary  Burden.  {Bappahannock  Records.} 


Datxgerfield  Family.      ■  97 

and  Mr.  John  Stone  married  the  widow,  Sarah  Walker,  whose 
liusband,  previous  to  Coh  John  Walker,  was  Col.  Henry  Fleet. 
(General  Court  Records.) 

John  Daingerfield  died  at  a  very  advanced  age.  His  will  was 
dated  October  13,  1T13,  and  was  proved  in  Essex  county  June  21, 
1720.  He  gave  30£  stcrl.  to  Ann  Thacker,  daughter  of  Frances 
Thacker,  and  a  gold  ring  of  20s.  to  Elizabeth  Thacker  [wife  of 
Henry  Thacker],  Frances  Thacker  [wife  of  Edwin  Thacker], 
and  Ann  Fox  [wife  of  Samuel  Fox].  The  residue  of  his  estate 
he  gave  to  his  son  (3)  William^  Daingerfield.  There  was  an- 
other son,  (4)  John^  Daingerfield,  who  married  ]\Iary  Conway, 
his  first  cousin,  dau.  of  Col.  Edwin  Conway  and  Sarah  Walker. 
He  died  sine  prole j,  and  his  widow  on  April  16,  1707,  married 
^[ajor  James  Ball.     (Flay den,  p.  234.) 

(3)  William^  Daixgerfield,  his  surviving  brother,  married 
Elizabeth  Bathurst,  daughter  of  Lancelot  Bathurst,  of  Virginia, 
fifth  son  of  Sir  Edward  Bathurst,  of  Sussex  county,  England, 
whose  estates  were  sequestered  on  account  of  his  loyalty  to  the 
crown  (see  Burke's  ''Extinct  and  Dormant  Baronetage'').  She 
was  widow  of  William  Tomlin.  William-^  Daingerfield's  will  was 
proved  in  Essex  county  November  18,  1735.  It  mentions  son 
(5)  ^yinirlnl\  (6)  Edwin\  (7)  dau.  Elizabeth,  (8)  dau.  Martha. 
It  makes  Col.  Edvrin  Thacker  *  and  his  two  sons  exors. 

(6)  Edwix*  Daixgerfield  resided  in  Xew  Kent,  was  captain, 
etc.,  married  Mary  Bassett  (bom  August  7,  1716;  died  August 
23,  1755),  daughter  of  Col.  William  Bassett,  of  Eltham.  (She 
married,  secondly,  Edward  Hack  Moseley.)  They  had  issue  (9) 
Mary  Bassett^,  who  married  William  Starke  (son  of  William 
Starke  and  Mary  Boiling  (see  Quarterly,  IY.,  pp.  270,  271). 
(10)  William^,  who  in  1766  was  trustee  with  Alexander  Boiling 
and  William  Allen  for  the  sale  of  '"'Broadway''  in  Prince  George 
county.    Perhaps  other  children. 

*  Henry  Thacker  married  Eltonliead  Conway,,  dau.  of  Col.  Edwin 
Conway  and  Martha  Eltonhead.  In  lG85-"80  his  son,  Henry  Thacker,  in 
hehalf  of  himself  and  his  brothers  and  sisters,  Edwin,  Chicheley  Corbin, 
-^lartha,  Lettice,  and  Alice,  sued  Mr.  William  Stanard,  who  had  married 
the  widow  Eltonhead,  and  had  the  estate  of  their  deceased  father  in  his 
hands,  and  had  left  the  county.  {Middlesex  County  Records.)  Col.  Ed- 
win Thacker  was  son  of  Edwin  Thacker  above  named  and  Frances  his 


^    pvife.     (See  Hayden,  p.  235-237.) 


98  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

(5)  William*  Daingerfield  married  Appliia  Fauntleroy, 
dau.  of  Col.  Griflin  Fauntleroy,  of  Northumberland  county. 
Griffin  Fauntleroy's  will  names  wife  Ann,  sons  Griffin  and 
Bushrod,  daus.  Mary,  Eliz.  Edwards  and  Katherine,  son-in-law 
William  Daingerfield,  granddau.  Elizabeth  Daingerfield  and 
Katherine  Daingerfield.  William  Daingerfield  *'died  at  his  home 
in  Essex,  April  29,  17G9,  at  an  advanced  age*'  {Virginia  Go.- 
zette).  His  will  is  recorded  at  Tappahannock,  and  names  chil- 
dren, (11)  William^,  (12)  Elizabeth,  who  in  1TG9  married  Hon. 
Meriwether  Smith  (see  Quarterly),  (13)  Ann  Bushrod,  who 

married Meiedith,  and  had  dau.  Letitia,  (11:)  Molly,  (15) 

Martha,  (IG)  Lucy,  (17)  Leroy,  (18)  John,  who  died  before  his 
father,  leaving  his  "a  legacy  in  the  Indies;"  (19)  Hannah.  The 
will  was  proved  Dec.  IS,  17G9,  by  Meriwether  Smith.  Xames 
also  "Cousin  Robinson  Daingerfield." 

Of  these,  (11)  William^  Daixgerfield  married  Mar}-  Willis, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  John  Willis  and  Elizabeth  Madison,  sis- 
ter of  President  Madison.  He  was  colonel  in  the  Continental 
Army.  His  will  was  proved  in  Spotsylvania  county  October  1, 
1781.  Issue,  (20)  John^j  who  married  in  1787  Frances  Southall, 
dau.  of  Peyton  Southall,  (21)  William^,  who  married  Elizabeth 
Thruston  (Quarterly,  YL,  p.  16),  (22)  Henry%  (23)  Eliza- 
beth, (21:)  Katherine,  married  Major  George  Washington  Lewis, 

(25)  Molly,  married  Capt.  John  Battaile,  Xovember  IS,  1807, 

(26)  Anne,  (27)  Sarah. 

(20)  John''  Datxgerfield  and  Frances  Southall  his  wife  had 
issue,  (2o)  JoHx^,  who  married  Eleanor  Bowles  Armistead,  dau. 
of  John  Armistead  and  Lucy  Baylor,  of  Caroline,  and  had  issue. 
Henry  W.®  Daingerfield,  late  of  Essex  county,  who  mar- 
ried Courtney  Tucker  Upshaw;  Emily,  x\rmistead,  WilKam, 
George,  Lucy  and  Ann. 

Note  on  Bathurst  Family  by  Dr.  Christopher  Johnsto^t,  of  Joh>'5 
Hopkins  University. 
Lancelot  Bathurst*  born  1G46,  came  to  Virginia  before  ICSO.  is  en- 
tered in  the  Visitation  of  Gloucestershire  of  1082  as  "Lancelot  Bathurst^ 
of  Virginia,  married  there  and  living  at  30  in  1682."  Granted  1300 
acres  in  New  Kent  county  April  1(»,  1(383   {Book,  VII.,  p.  209),  and  had 

*  High  Sheriff  New  Kent  county  in  1698  {Vestry  Book  of  St.  Peter's 
Parish. ) 


Dainqerfield  Family.  99 

other  grants  later  (Virginia  Land  Records),  Appointed  August  1,  1684, 
by  Edmund  Jenings  Attorney-Genral  of  Virginia,  his  deputy  for  Hen- 
rico county  [yirgivia  Historical  Soriefjj  Col.  X.,  372).  On  list  of  Vir- 
ginia attorneys  IGSO  (Virginia  Magazine,  I.,  252).  Clerk  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Private  Causes,  and  of  Committee  on  Examination  of  Records, 
1689    (Palmer's  Calendar,  I.,  22).     Justice  of  New  Kent  county,  1699, 

1702    {Virginia  Magazine,  I.,  235,  369).     Lancelot  Bathurst^  and  

his  wife  had  i«^ue:  i.  Lawrence  Batliurst,^  died  unmarried,  will  Dec.  29, 
1704,  proved  Feb.  11,  1705,  in  Essex  county,  mentions  bros. -in-law  Wra. 
Tomlin,  Francis  ^leriwether  and  Druvy  Stith.  ii.  Elizabeth  Bathurst, 
married  first  Wm.  Tomlin,  who  died  in  1708,  and  second  in  1709  Wm. 
Daingerfield.  iii.  Mary  Bathurst,  marrif^d  first  Francis  Meriwether,  sec- 
ond Reuben  Welch,  third  Hon.  John  Robinson,  iv.  Susanna  Bathurst, 
married  Drury  Stith,  who  died  1740, 

February  10,  1708-'9.  Elizabeth  Tomlin  admin'x.  of  Wra.  Tomlin, 
dee'd,  gave  bond  in  £1000  for  the  admin,  of  hi^  estate,  with  Francis 
Meriwether  and  Sam'l  Thacker  as  bondsmen.  (Essex  County  Records.) 

March  10,  1708-"9.  The  estate  of  Wm.  Tomlin,  deceased,  is  ordered  to 
be  inventoried  and  appraised  and  Elizth  Tomlin,  widow  of  said  deceased, 
ordered  to  make  oath  to  the  inventory.     (Essex  County  Records.) 

February,  1709-"10.  Wm.  Daingerfield  and  Eliztii  his  wife  appear  as 
parties  to  a  suit. 

October  9.  1713.  Wm.  Stanard  sues  Wm.  Daingerfield,  who  married 
Elizabeth,  widow  and  adminx  of  Wm.  Tomlin,  dec'd. 

All  this  from  Essex  County  Records,  as  also  the  following: 

August  10,  1G9G.  Mary  Meriwether,  of  Essex  county,  to  John  Battle, 
power  of  att'y  to  acknowl.  deed  of  her  husband  Francis  ^Meriwether  to 
David  Catlet. 

Apriji  9,  1713.  Admin,  bond  of  Francis  Meriwether  by  Mary  Meri- 
wether his  adminx  in  £5000.  Sureties,  Wm.  Daingerfield  and  Wm. 
Young. 

October  21,  1740.  Thos.  Wright  Bclfield  and  Mary  uxr.,  James 
Skelton  and  Jane  uxr.,  and  Francis  Smith  and  Lucy  uxr. — against  Theod^ 
Bland  and  Frances  uxr.  about  certain  lands  wh.  Mary  Robinson,  late  of 
Essex  county,  formerly  Mary  Meriwether,  widow  of  Francis  Meriwether 
of  said  county,  held  as  dower,  and  divers  lands  settled  by  Reuben  Welch, 
of  S.  Farnharn  Par.,  to  the  use  of  the  said  Reuben  and  Mary  his  wife  and 
heirs — in  default  of  which  to  the  use  of  Thos.  ^Meriwether  (now  dead), 
son  of  Francis  aforesaid,  and  by  Thomas'  death  are  come  to  your  ora- 
tors, Mary,  Jane  and  Lucy,  daus.  of  s^  Francis  ^leriwether  and  sisters 
of  Tiiomas,  and  to  Frances  Bland  (now  under  age),  wife  of  Theod^ 
Bland,  and  dau.  of  Drury  Boiling  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  another  of  the 
daus.  of  sd  Francis  Meriwether. 

Januai-y  5,  1731.  Hon.  John  Robinson,  of  Spottsylvania  county,  and 
Mary  Welch,  of  Essex  county,  widow — marriage  settlement. 


100  William  and  Maky  College  Quaeterly. 

Robert  Griggs. 

I  Lancelot  Butheuest. 

IMattrom  Wright Rdth-  I 


JOHN  Belfield  Engi  X   /  Fr.-ncis  Meriwether Mary  Buthecrbt. 

I  \ 

JOSEPH  Belfield Frances  Wright. 


Thomas  Wright  Belfield 

John  Belfield,  bokn  June  23,  172.5. 

This  chart  pedigree,  as  it  stands,  is  entered  on  a  flyleaf  of  the  Bel- 
field prayer-book,  and  is  in  tlie  handwriting  of  the  above  John  Belfield 
(born  23  June,  1725,  died  19  August,  1805),  who  seems  to  have  taken 
Bome  delight  in  genealogy.  You  see  he  puts  down  his  grandmother 
Mary  as  the  daughter  of  Lancelot  Bathurst. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  EOGERS  OF  CAROLINE. 

An  Officer  in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  ITT 6-1 782. 

(Copies  of  valuable  historical  data  taken  from  the  originals  in  the 
possession  of  his  grand-nephew,  General  John  Cox  Underwood,  ex- 
Lieutenant-Governor  of  Kentucky.) 

Entered  the  Continental  Army  early  in  1776. 

I  do  hereby  certify  of  my  own  knowledge  that  early  in  the 
year  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  seventy-six  Captain  John 
Rogers  entered  into  the  Army  and  serv^ed  in  one  of  the  regiments 
on  Continental  establishment.  Given  nnder  my  hand  this  the  23d 
day  of  October,  1792.  Oliver  Towles, 

Late  Lt.  Colo,  in  the  Yirg'a  line  on  Cont.l.  establishmt. 

Appointed  Lieutenant  in  Virginia  State  Service,  August  11, 
1778,    Eastern  Illinois. 

George  Rogers  Clark,  Esq  : 
Colonel,  Commandant  of  the  eastern 

Illinois, 
St:  Vincent  &  Dependencies,  &c.,  d-c. 

By  Virtue  of  the  Power  &  Authority  to  me  given  by  his  Excel- 
lency Patrick  Henry  Governour  or  chief  Magistrate  of  the  Com- 
monwealth of  Virginia, 


I 

I  Captain  John  Rogers,  of  Caroline.  101 


I  do  hereby  nominate  &  appoint  you  Lieutenant  in  tiie  service 

of  the  said  State,  you  are  therefore  carefully  to  do  your  Duty  as 

such  in  all  things  thereunto  belonging.    Given  under  my  hand  & 

seal  at  Fort  Clark  this  11th  day  of  August,  17T8. 

G.  Pi.  Clark. 
To  John  Rogers^  Esq: 

Promoted  and  Commissioned  Captain  of  Light  Dragoons,  Vir- 
ginia State  Forces,  August  22,  1779. 

The  Commonwealth  of  Virginia  to  John  Rogers,   Gentleman, 
greeting: 

Know  you  that  from  the  special  Trust  and  Confidence 
which  is  reposed  in  your  Fidelity,  Courage,  Activity,  and  good 
•Conduct,  our  Governour  with  the  advice  of  the  council  of 
STATE,  doth  hereby  constitute  and  appoint  you  the  said  John 
Eogers  —  Captain  of  a  Company  of  Lt.  Dragoons  in  the  Forces 
of  this  Commonwealth. 

In  testimony  whereof  these  our  Letters  are  made  patent. 
Witness  Tho:mas  Jefferson,  Esquire,  our  faid  Governour 
at  Williamsburg  on  the  Twenty-second  Day  of  August  in  the 
Year  of  our  Lord  One  Thoufand  Seven  Hundred  and  Seventy- 
nine.  Th.  Jefferson. 

Inquiry  into   Conduct  and  Acquittal   of  Capt.   John  Rogers, 
During  His  Command  at  Kaskaskius. 

Fort  Jefferson,  March  8,  1781. 

Sir  :  Whereas  I  have  understood  there  has  and  are  to  be  Com- 
plaints Entered  against  my  Conduct  During  my  Command  at 
Kaskaskias,  I  request  that  you  will  Order  a  board  of  Enquiry  to 
sit  ,to  morrow  to  Inspect  into  my  Conduct  During  such  Com- 
mand. Your  complying  with  the  above  request  will  greatly  oblige 
Your  obt.  Servant,  Jno.  Rogers. 

(4  Copy.)     . 

Capt.  Robert  George,  Comd. 

Fort  Jefferson,  ^th  March,  1781. 
At  a  court  of  enquiry  held  by  order  of  Eobert  George,  Capt. 


103  William  and  Mart  College  Quartekly. 

Command,  (at  the  request  of  Capt.  Kogers)  to  enquire  into  Capt. 
John  Kogers's  Conduct  during  his  Command  at  Kaskaskias. 

Capt.  Kellar,  President, 

Capt.  KoI)erts, 

Lieut.  Clark, 

Lieut.  Girault,         )  Members. 

Lieut.  Garney, 

Cornet  Thurston, 

William  Clark,  actg.  as  Judge  Advocate. 

The  Court  met  according  to  order  and  being  Sworn  proceeded 
to  enquire  into  the  Cause  in  hearing. 

The  Court  having  made  examination,  and  finding  no  proof  of 
any  misconduct  in  Capt.  Eogers,  and  there  being  no  Alligations 
exhibited  against  him  but  frivolous  Eeports  do  acquit  him. 

(Signed)  Abraham  Kellae^  President. 

Approved  of 

Egbert  George^  Capt.  Comdt. 
A  True  Copy. 

William  Clark^  Judge  Advocate, 

Eogers^  Dragooxs  Granted  Furlows. 
In  Council  Deer  loth,  1781. 

The  inclosed  is  referred  to  CoFo  Davis. 

Bex'j  Harrison. 
(Enclosure.) 

Extract  of  Genl  C,  Dated  Fort  Xelson  Oct'r  3d,  1781. 
Capt.  John  Eogers  will  march  his  Troop  of  Light  Dragoons  to 
FrederieksbirTg-tQ.  be  disposed  of  by  his  Excellency  the  Governor. 

Test :  John  Crittenden^  Y.  A. 

Davies        ) 

to  \    Order. 

Eogers        S 

Capt.  Eogers  will  indulge  his  men  with  furlows  for  two 
months  if  he  thinks  so  long  a  time  necessary,  and  will  collect 
them^^^redericksburg,  and  make  timely  application  for  cloth- 

WILLIA3I  Davis. 

War  Office  DecT  15th,  1781. 


Captain  John  Eogeks,  of  Caroline. 


103 


THE  LAST  PAY  ABSTRACT  OF  A  TROOP  OF  LIGHT  DRAGOONS  IN  THE  SER^ 
VICE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH  OF  VIRGINIA  UNDER  THE  COMMAND  O^ 
CAPTAIN  JOHN  ROGERS,  COMMENCING  THE  1ST  DAY  OF  OCTOBER,  178U 
AND  ENDING  THE  14th  DAY  OF  FEBRUARY,  1782. 


Names. 


John  Rogers 

,  James  Meri wether, 
"  John  Thurston 

1  Henry  Goodloe 

2  Francis  Spilnmn,,. 

3  Domaniok  Welch,.. 

4  Casper  Galer 

5  John  Camp  bell,  w«. 

6  John  Murphy, 

7  Travis  Booton, 

8  Wm.  Fro£';,'el;t. 

9  William  i.enm. 

-30  James  Spiiman, 

11  James  Corder 

12  "William  Hooton,  .. 

13  Barney  Heggans,.. 

14  .Michael  O'Harrone. 
-15  Michael  Glass, 

16  John  Jones 

ir  William  Kendall... 
-IS  James  Durrett. 

19  George  Smith. 

20  Florence  Mahonev. 

21  John  ^^"heler 

22  Dick  Richards 


Rank. 


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Do. 
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Do. 
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Do. 
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When  Dischakoed, 
Dead  oit  Deserted. 


Present, 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 

Discharged  2nd  Jan. 

Do.  14th  January, 

Present, 

Discharged  1st  Jan., 

Do.  14th  Fe>)n-iary, 

Do.  14th  February, 

Present, 

Discharged  Ist  Jan., 

Do.  Do. 

Present, 

DischarKed  14th  Feb. 

Do.  Isc  -lauuary. 

Do.  14th  February, 

Present, 

Discharged  14th  Feb. 

Do.  1st  January, 

Present, 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

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Eiciimond^  Decemocr  2d,  1782. 
Sworn  to  before 

Jno.  Pendleton^  Jr. 


Rogers  a  Member  of  the  Society  of  tpie  Cincinnati. 

(The  dociuuentarv  evidence  is  in  possession  of  his  grand  nephew,  Joseph- 
Underwood  Rogers,  Esq.,  of  Ghxsgow,  Ky.) 

The  printed  part  of  the  ornate  certifLcate  of  his  membership  in 
the  society  of  the  Cincinnati  is  as  follows  : 

Be  it  known  that  John  Eogers,  Esquire,  of  the  Common- 
wealth of  Virginia  is  a  Member  of  the  Society  of  the-  Ci.c- 
ciNNATi;  instituted  by  the  Officers  of  the  American  army  ar 
the  Period  of  its  Dissolution,  as  well  as  to  commemorate  the- 
great  Event  which  gave  Independence  to  Xorth  America^ 
as  for  the  laudable  purpose  of  inculcating  the  Duty  of  laying 
do^vn  in  Peace  Arms  assumed  for  Public  Defence,  and  uniting  in 
Acts  of  brotherly  affection  and  Bonds  of  perpetual  Friendship 
the  Members  constituting  the  same. 


104  William  and  Maky  College  Quarterly. 

Ix  TESTiMOxy  wifEiiEOF,.  1,  tlio  Pre>ident  of  the  said  So- 
ciety, have  hereunto  set  my  Hand  at  Mount  Vernon  in  the 

State  of    ...    .    Virginia this  first    .... 

Day  of  March  .  .  .  .  in  the  Year  of  Our  Lord  One  Thou- 
sand Seven  Hundred  and  Eighty  Seven  ....  and  in  the 
Eleventh  ....  Year  of  the  Independence  of  the  United 
States. 

By  order, 

(Signed)  S.  Knox,  Secretary. 

(Signed)  G.  Washington,  President. 

Period  of  Service  of  Prominent  Officers. 

{In  Capt.  John  Rogers'  handwriting.) 

Eobert  George  served  in  Contl.  Service  from  the  4th  December. 
l'T77,  to  the  4th  June,  1779,  at  which  time  he  was  appointed 
Capt.  of  Artillery  in  the  service  of  Virginia  and  served  from 
thence  to  15th  Feby.,  1784,  inclusive. 

Abraham  Chaplain  served  from  13th  of  Jany.,  1778,  to  14tli 
ApL,  1783. 

George  E.  Clark  served  from  2nd  Jany.,  1778,  to  26th  June, 
1783. 

John  Eogers  serv^ed  from  (early  in  the  year)  1776  to  the  14th 
Feby.,  1782. 

It  may  be  set  forth  that  I  have  served  between  five  and  six 
years  (nearly  six),  that  in  May,  1779,  the  Assembly  passed  a  res- 
olution by  way  of  acknowledgment  of  their  approbation  of  my 
Services,  and  that  I  continued  in  active  service  until  all  hos- 
tilities had  actually  ceased.  I  then  retired  subject  to  be  called 
out  should  circumstances  again  require  it.        John"  Eogers. 

Note. — Captain  John  Eogers  was  born  in  1757,  was  between  18  and 
19  years  old  when  he  volunteered  and  enlisted  in  the  Continental  Army 
in  177G;  was  21  Tvhen  appointed  Lieutenant  by  his  cousin,  General  Geo. 
Rogers  Clark  in  1778,  and  22  when  commissioned  Captain  of  Light  Dra- 
goons by  Governor  Thomas  Jeflferson  in  1779.  He  was  said  to  have  been 
the  youngest  officer  of  his  grade  in  the  Revolutionary  army,  and  first 
served  with  the  Continental  forces  in  Lower  Virginia,  then  in  the  spring 
of  1778  he  joined  Clark's  expedition  to  the  west,  where  he  participated 
in  the  capture  of  Kaskaskias  and  Vincennes,  and  afterward  commanded 
the  guard  which  conducted  the  British  Governor  Hamilton  and  other 
prisoners  from  Vincennes,  through  the  wilderness  nearly  1,000  miles,  to 
Richmond,  Va.  He  was  talented,  brave,  good  and  handsome ;  never  mar- 
ried and  died  suddenly,  April  IG,  1794,  in  the  prime  of  manhood,  aged 
37  years. 


Chiles  Fa^fily.  105 

CHILES  FAMILY.* 

(1)  Walter^  Chiles,  mcrdinnt,  patented  400  acres  near  the 
Falls  of  xVppomattox  river,  where  Petersburg  is  situated.  He 
represented  Charles  City  county  in  the  General  Assetably,  ^vas 
speaker,  and  in  1G52  member  of  the  Council.  He  married,  first, 
Elizabeth,  by  whom  he  had  (2)  AYilliam^  (3)  Walter^  His  sec- 
ond wife  was  probably  Alice  Luckin,  who  married,  secondly,  John 
Page.    He  died  about  1G58.     His  "son  and  heir"  (3)  Walter^ 

was  a  burgess  for  James  City  county,  married  Susannah  , 

and  was  dead  before  1672,  leaving  issue  (4)  Jolm^,  (5)  Henry^ 
of  Xew  Kent,  who  had  issue  between  1G90  and  ITOG,  Henry, 
Walter  and  James.  When  Hanover  was  formed  out  of  Xew 
Kent,  Henry^  Chiles  was  vestryman  of  St.  Paul's  Parish.  In 
1T20  the  vestry  book  of  that  parish  announces  his  death.  In  1730 
Henry  Chiles  (probably  his  son)  and  Anne  his  wife,  of  Hanover, 
made  a  deed  for  lands  in  Goochland.  In  1749  Anne  Chiles  made 
a  deed,  recorded  in  Albemarle,  taken  from  Goochland.  (6) 
Elizabeth^,  who  married  Henry  Tyler,  of  Bruton  Parish,  great- 
great-grandfather  of  President  John  Tyler. 

(4)  JoHX^  eldest  son,  married  Mary before  1690.     He 

was  messenger  to  the  Council  in  1G93.  He  patented  900  acres 
in  1691  situated  in  Xew  Kent  county  in  the  freshes  of  York 
river  above  Mehixton.f  This  part  of  the  county  was  afterwards 
in  Hanover  county,  and  the  tract  appears  to  have  been  pur- 
chased about  1730  by  Mann  Page  from  Henry  Chiles. I  There 
is  a  patent  to  said  John  Chiles  in  1701  as  church  warden  of  St. 
Margaret's  Parish  in  King  William.  (  In  1723  Eleanor  Cliiles 
moved  the  Council  "to  stop  a  patent  to  (7)  Henry  Chiles*  or  any 
other  of  the  children  of  John  Chiles  deced,"  in  King  William.  § 
In  1725  and  1727  "Hexry  Chiles*  '*  of  King  William  county'' 
patented  lands  in  Henrico  (Goochland  county).  In  1736  he  was 
living  in  Spotsylvania  county.  !|  In  1756,  having  intermar- 
ried with  Susannah,  widow  of  John  Graves,  he  executed  a  bond 

*  Quarterly,  T.,  p.  75-78 ;  VI.,  p.  147. 

t  In  1690  John  Chiles  obtained  another  patent  for  land  in  New  Kent 
on  Crmnp's  Creek  ( now  Hanover ) . 

%  See  Ecning's  Statutes,  V.,  p.  278.  §  Council  Book. 

II  Spotsylvania  and  Caroline  counties  were  formed  in  part  from  King 
William  county.  St.  Mar2:aret*3  Parish  was  partly  in  King  William, 
partly  in  Caroline,  and  partly  in  Spotsylvania. 


lOG  William  and  Mary  College  Qux\.RTi;'v  v. 

to  protect  Thomas  Graves,  the  younger,  in  his  si  oart  of  his 
father's  estate.  The  same  year  he  executed  with  1  ..  nife  Susan- 
nah a  deed  to  his  "second  son  John  Chiles/'  His  will  was  proved 
in  Spotsylvania  17(33,  by  which  he  had  issue  (8)  Walter^,  (9) 
John,  (10)  William,  (11)  Henry,*  (12)  James,  (13)  Benja- 
min, (1-1)  Susan,  married  Hailey,  (15)  Elizabeth,  (IG)  xVnn, 
(17)  Thomas  CaiT,  (18)  Sarah.  The  same  year  John  Chiles 
gave  bond  with  Walter  Chiles  security,  as  guardian  of  Thomas 
Carr  Chiles  and  Sarah  Chiles,  orphans. 

A  correspondent  quoting  family  authority  says  that  of  these 
children  Walter  Chiles^  married  Phebe  Carr,  daughter  of 
Capt.  William  Carr  (died  1760)  and  had  issue,  Susannah,  mar- 
ried Wm.  Day;  Ann,  married  Ed.  P.  Thomas;  William;  Agnes, 
married  Thomas  Wallace;  Thomas,  married  Mary  Dorsey;  Sarah, 
married  John  Bradshaw;  Elizabeth,  married  Thomas  ..Davis ; 
Huldah,  married  David  William  Standeford;  Phebe,  married 

Joseph  Whitaker;    Walter  Carr,  married  Sutton.     Carrs 

and  Chileses  frequently  intermarried,  and  are  scattered  numer- 
ously over  the  west.  There  is  a  deed  in  Spotsylvania  of  (7) 
Henry*  Chiles  and  Mary  his  wife  about  1749.  He  married  per- 
haps twice,  first  Mary  (Carr?),  second  Susannali  Graves,  widow. 
The  family  statement  has  it  that  his  first  wife  was  Miss  Carr, 
dan.  of  Capt.  Thomas  Carr,  Sr.,  and  that  the  second  wa^  bom 
Susanna  Dicken,  In  1761  Christopher  Dicken,  of  Culpeper,  and 
Sarah  his  wife  made  a  deed  for  lands  in  Spotsylvania.  Henry* 
Chiles  had  evidently  a  brother  John,  for  "Humphry  Hill,  of 
King  William  county,  merchant,''  made  a  deed  recorded  in  Spot- 
sly  vania  in  1736  to  Henry  Chiles,  of  Spotsylvania,  and  to  John 
Chiles  of  King  William.  In  1761  John  Chiles  is  named  as  "clap- 
board carpenter.'^ 

A  John  Chiles'  vrill  was  recorded  in  Louisa  in  177-1,  but  he  left 
no  children.    He  had  nieces,  Olive  Edvrards  and  ]\Iary  Wright. 


CAER  FAMILY. 

Col.  Wilson  Miles  Cary,  215  ^N'orth  Charles  street,  Baltimore, 
gives  the  following  data: 

^'Thomas  Carr,  Gentleman/'  the  first  emigrant  of  the  family, 
so  styled  in  the  patent  granted  to  him  April  25,  1701,  for  546 

*  Henry  Chiles  received,  under  the  will,  the  home  tract  of  his  father. 


Carr  Family.  107 

acres  in  St.  John's  Parish  in  Pamunkey  Xeck,  King  William 
county,  Va.,  for  the  transportation  of  11  persons  into  the  colony, 
was  a  Justice  of  that  county  court  as  early  as  1702,  and  High 
Sherilf  in  170S-'9.  The  name  of  his  wife  is  not  known,  but  he 
had  at  least  two  sons,  viz.,  1  Major  Thomas,  2  William,  ancestor 
«of  the  Carrs  of  Spotsylvania,  Kentucky  and  ^lissouri. 

Major  Thomas^  Carr  of  Caroline  County  was  born  in  1G78  (see 
Carr  Family  Bible).  He  was  one  of  the  original  justices  ap- 
pointed for  Caroline  at  its  formation  in  1728,  and  until  his  death 
a  member  of  its  court,  ranking  second  in  its  commission  since 
May  11,  1732.  Previous  to  the  erection  of  Caroline,  he  had  been 
Justice  of  the  parent  county  of  King  William  since  1714,  of 
which  he  was  High  Sheritf  in  1722-'23.  He  first  appears  in  the 
records  in  1711  as  "Thomas  Carr,  Junior,''  and  patents  in  1718 
800  acres  in  King  William.  In  1724  he  is  styled  "'Captain 
Thomas  Carr,  Jr.,  Gent.,'^  and  in  1730,  etc.,  "Major  Thomas 
■Carr."  Between  1718  and  1736  patents  for  large  tracts  of  land 
in  the  counties  of  King  William,  Caroline,  Hanover,  Louisa  and 
Albemarle  were  issued  to  him.  He  died  in  Caroline  county  May 
.^9,  1737.  His  will,  dated  May  29,  1735,  was  proved  July  14, 
1738.  By  his  wife  Mary  Dabney  (born  1G88,  married  1704,  died 
-September  7,  1748)  he  left  four  children,  viz.,  i.  Thomas,  born 
1705,  who  died  issueless  in  1743  (see  will  dated  July  5th)  ;  ii. 
John  (see  below) ;  iii.  Agnes,  married  1730  Colonel  John  Waller 
of  Spotsylvania,  leaving  issue,  iv.  Sarah,  born  Xov.  14,  1714, 
died  1772,  married  1732  John  Minor  (1704-'4J),  a  very-  wealthy 
planter  of  Spotsylvania,  who  also  owned  large  estates  in  other 
counties,  and  left  many  children. 

John  Carr,  Esq.,  of  "Bear  Castle,"  on  Elk  Eun,  Louisa  county, 
was  born  December  26,  1706,  in  Caroline  county.  Member  of  the 
-county  court  of  Louisa  from  its  formation  in  1742  till  his  death; 
High  Sheriff  1753--'54  (see  bond  August  28,  1753).  Inherited 
large  landed  estates.  Married,  twice:  First, ^lary  [Garland],  who 
died  March  10,  1736,  leaving  one  son  Thomas,  bom  Xovember 
24,  1735,  ancestor  of  the  Carrs  of  Xorth  Garden,  Albemarle. 
His  second  wife,  whom  he  married  December  27,  1737,  was  Bar- 
bara Overton,  dau.  of  Capt.^James  Overton,  of  Hanover.  She 
was  born  April  20,  1720,  and  died  December,  1794.  He  died 
June  17,  1778  (will  July  22,  1773-August  10,  1778).  Of  his 
eleven  children  by  second  wife,  six  surv^ived,  viz.,  (1)  Dabney^  of 


108  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

"Bear  Castle,"  born  there  October  26,  1743,  married  July  20, 
1765,  Martha  Jefferson,  and  died  ^[ay  16,  1773;  (2)  SamiieL 
born  1745,  died  1777,  s.  p.,  major  in  Revolutionary  army;  (3) 
Elizabeth,  born  1747,  married  Xathaniel  Anderson;  (4)  Overton, 
of  Maryland,  bom  1752,  married  Ann,  dau.  John  Addison,  of 
"Oxon  Hill,"  Prince  George  county,  Md. ;  (5)  Garland,  of  Albe- 
marle county,  born  1754,  died  1837,  married  1783  ^lary  Phillips. 
nee  Winston;  (6)  Mary,  born  1756,  married,  first,  cousin  James 
Minor,  of  Albemarle." 

Capt.  William-  Carr^  son  of  Major  Thomas^  Carr,  the  emi- 
grant, is  said  to  have  married,  first  Miss  Chiles,  second,  Susannah 
Brooks.  His  will,  dated  August  2,  1760,  was  proved  in  Spotsyl- 
vania county,  August  12,  1760,  and  nE|mes  wife  Susannah  and 
children,  (1)  Sarah,  who  married  Mordecai  Hord,  (2) 
Thomas,  (3)  William,  (4)  Ann,  (5)  Elizabeth,  (6)  Phebe, 
(7)  \yalter  Chiles^  Carr,  (S)  Charles  Brooks  Carr,  (9)  Agnes 
Brooks  Carr,  married  William  Ellis,  (10)  Susannah,  (11)  Mary. 

Of  these  I  am  told  that  Walter  Chiles^  Carr  married  Eliza- 
beth Chiles,  and  died  in  1848,  leaving  issne,  Susan,  Choj'les*^ 
Phebe,  Thomas,  Xancy,  William  Chiles,  Virginia,  Dabney,  Wal- 
ter, Eliza  Minor,  Hulda.  Of  these  Charles*  married  Elizabeth 
Todd,  of  Kentucky,  and  they  had  thirteen  children,  of  whom 
Eobert  Elisha  Todd  married  Sarah  Block. 


BIBLE  EECORDS  OF  FOX,  CRAWLEY,  AXD  KEXXER 

FAMILIES.* 

David  Fox  was  born  the  12  of  March,  1694. 

Elizabeth  Crawley,  daughter  to  John  Crawley  and  Spelman 
his  wife,  was  born  the  first  day  of  September,  1763.  Departed 
this  life  on  Sunday  at  half  an  hour  after  three,  it  being  the  16th 
day  pf  June,  1765. 

John  Crawley  was  married  to  his  wife  Judith  Ball,  the  daugh- 
ter of  ColP  Spencer  Ball,  the  17th  day  of  January,  1750.     She 

*  These  entries  are  made  in  an  old  Bible,  now  in  possession  of  "Mrs. 
E.  F.  McCue,  Greenwood  Depot,  Albemarle  eo.unty,  Va.  The  title  page 
has:  "Printed  at  the  Theater  in  Oxford,  and  are  to  be  sold  by  Moses 
Pitt  at  the  Angel,  in  St.  Paul's  Churciiyard,  Peter  Parker  at  the  Leg 
and  Star,  over  against  the  Royal  Exchange,  in  Cornhill,  William  Leake 
at  the  Crown,  between  the  two  Temple  Gates  in  Fleet  street,  Thomas  Guy 
at  the  corner  of  Little  Lumbard,  London.     2^IDCLXXX.'' 


Fox,  Crawlet,  axd  Kenxer  Families.  109 

departed  this  life  on  Monday  night  at  40  minutes  after  eleven 
of  the  clock,  it  being  the  30th  day  of  April,  1759. 

Jolm  Crawley  was  married  to  his  wife  Spehaan  Gamer,  the 
daughter  of  Parish  Garner  and  Frances  his  wife,  on  Wednesday, 
July  -Itli,  in  the  year  1759. 

Frances  Spelman  Crawley,  daughter  to  John  and  Spelman 
Crawley,  was  born  on  Saturday,  tlie  10th  day  of  May,  1760. 

Samuel  Crawley,  son  to  John  Crawley  and  Spelman  his  wife, 
was  born  the  22^^  day  of  December,  17G1,  it  being  of  a  Tuesday. 

Elizabeth  Crawley,  daughter  to  John  Crawley  and  Spelman  his 
wife,  was  born  the  first  day  of  September,  in  the  year  17G3. 

Eodham  Kenner  was  married  to  his  wife  Susanna  Opie,  the 
daughter  of  John  and  Anne  Opie,  on  Thursday,  April  the  S-lth, 
in  the  year  1735. 

Eich^  Kenner,  son  of  Eodham  and  Susannah  Kenner,  was 
born  on  Tu:esday  night,  15  m}-^  past  eight  at  night  on  July  18th, 
in  the  year  of  our  Lord  God  1738. 

Spencer  Crawley,  sou  to  John  Crawley  and  Judith  his  w^fe, 
was  bom  the  4th  day  of  May,  in  the  year  1754,  it  being  half  an 
hour  after  ten  of  a  Saturday  night. 

John  Crawley,  son  to  John  Crawley  and  Judith  his  wife,  was 
born  the  18th  day  of  September,  in  the  year  1756. 

Coll°  Spencer  Ball  departed  this  life  the  11th  of  February,  it 
being  of  a  Wednesday  in  y®  year  1767. 

Kenher  Crawley,  son  to  John  Crawley  and  Spelman  his  wife, 
was  born  on  Saturday  morning  about  ten  minutes  before  sunrise, 
it  being  the  9th  of  Aprill,  1768. 

Departed  this  life  on  Good  Friday,  the  24th  of  March  about 
lialf  an  hour  after  sunset,  1769. 

Hannah,  daughter  to  David  and  Hannah  Fox,  was  borne  25th 
day  of  July,  1671. 

David,,  son  to  David  and  Hannah  Fox,  was  born  in  10  of  X''^, 
1672,  departed  this  life  at  7  3^ear  and  3  months  ould. 

Samuell,  sonn  to  David  and  Hannah  Fox,  was  borne  the  last 
daye  of  ffoburary,  in  1674. 

W"^,  sonn  to  David  and  Hannah  Fox,  was  ^  borne  the  20th  of 
January,  1673. 

David  Fox^'-  was  bom  12th  of  March,  1647. 

Hannah  ffox,  y®  wife  of  David  if  ox,  abvs*^,  was  born  the  12  of 
May,  Ann"  Domm.,  1650. 


110            William  and  Mary  College  Quarterlt. 
Hannah  Kenner  was  born  31  day  of  Au . 


Married  to  my  wife  Hannah  Ball,  the  daughter  of  Coll°  W° 
Ball,  July  22"^ 

Eichard  Kenner,  son  to  Richard  Kenner  and  EUz^  his  wife, 
died  February  12th,  1729-'30. 

—  as  Crawley,  son  of  John  and  Spelman  Crawley,  was  born 
— th  day  of  January,  176G. 


1750.  1759. 

JUDITH  BALL.  =  JOIIX  CRA  WLEV.  =  SPELMA  .V  GA  RXER 


I  I  rill 

SpeTicer.  John.  Frances  Spelman.      Samuel.      Eluabeth. 


Kenner. 


1735. 
Rodman  Kenner.  ^—  Sv.saiina  Ojne. 

1 

Richard. 

I 

Richard. 
161*7.  David  Fox.  =r  Hannah  Ball  1650. 


I  I  I 

Hannah.      David.       Wm.  SamtieU. 


ALLEIS^  FAMILY  OF  SURRY  COUNTY. 
{See  Quarterly,  V.,  p.  189;  VL,  p.  130.) 
1  Arthur^  Allex  patented  200  acres  in  1649  between  Lawne's 
Creek  and  Lower  Chippoakes  Creek.  He  built  himself  a  brick 
house  which,  known  as  "Bacon^s  Castle,''  is  still  standing.  He 
married  Alice  Tucker;  he  was  born  in  1602  and  died  in  1670. 
He  had  issue  (2)  Major  Arthur-^  ''son  and  heir,"  who  was  bur- 
gess, speaker  of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  etc.  His  brick  house 
was  used  by  a  party  of  Bacon's  friends  as  a  fort  in  1676.  He 
married  Katherine,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Capt.  Lawrence 
Baker,  of  Surry  county.  His  will  was  proved  in  Surry  court 
September  5,  1710.  He  had  issue  (3)  Elizabeth,  who  married 
Col.  William  Bridger,  (4)  John^,  (5)  Katherine,  (6)  James, 
(7)   Arihw-^,    (8)    Ann,    (9)    Mary-,    (10)  Jose2yh.       Of  these 


Allen  Family^  of  Surry  County.  Ill 

JOHN^  was  a  student  at  William  and  ^laiy  College  in  1699. 
His  will  was  proved  March  o,  17-il.  He  married  Elizabeth  Bas- 
sett  (born  July  4,  1G97,  died  October  4,  1738),  daughter  of 
William  Bassett,  of  the  Council  of  Virginia.  She  died  before  her 
husband,  and  she  is  called  in  his  will  "sister  of  Mrs.  [Lucy] 
Eoscow  [wife  of  Col.  William  Roscow]  and  of  Mrs.  [Mary] 
Daingerfield"  [wife  of  Capt.  Edwin  Daingcrfield,  of  Xew  Kent] . 
He  had  no  surviving  issue,  but  left  the  bulk  of  his  estate  to  (11) 
William*  Allen,  son  of  his  brother,  (10)  Joseph^,  whom  he  re- 
quested to  be  educated  at  William  and  Mary  College  till  twenty- 
one  years.  He  gave  his  gold  watch  to  Mary  Eoscow,  dau.  of  Col. 
William  Eoscow.    He  made  Capt.  John  Euflin  exor. 

7  Arthur^  Allen  married  Elizabeth  Bray,  who  calls  Thomas 
Bray  brother.    He  died  in  1725,  after  which  she  married  Arthur 

Smith,  of  Isle  of  Wight,  and  after  his  death Stith.     She 

established  a  free  school  in  Smithfieid,  Isle  of  Wight  county. 
She  left  by  Allen  marriage  (12)  James*,  (13)  Katherine,  mar- 
ried. Benjamin  Cocke,  (14)  daughter,  married  James  Bradby. 

12  James^  Allen  died  without  issue  in  1744,  leaving  legacies. 
to  Thomas  Bray,  James  Bray,  William  Allen,  Arthur  Smith, 
Frances  Bray,  Elizabeth  Bray,  James  Bridger,  Joseph  Bridger, 
John  Cornwall,  son  of  Jacob  Cornwall,  Sister  Catherine  Cocke. 
He  made  his  brother-in-law  Benjamin  Cocke  exor. 

10  Joseph^  Allen  married  Hannah ,  and  dying  in  1736 

left  only  one  son  (11)  Willia:m'*  Allen,  who  was  the  sole  heir 
of  his  uncle  John.  He  was  educated  at  William  and  Mary  Col- 
lege, and  married  twice  {Wythe's  Cliancenj  Reports)  :  First, 
Clara  Walker,  by  whom  he  had  (15)  John^  Allen,  who  died 
in  May,  1793,  without  issue.  He  married,  second,  Mary  Light- 
foot,  daughter  of  William  Lightfoot,  of  Sandy  Point,  in  Charles 
City  county,  and  Mildred  Howell  his  wife,  by  whom  he  had  (16) 
Mary  Howell,  who  married  Carter  Bassett  Harrison,  and  had 
issue,  Carter  H.  Harrison  and  William  Allen  Harrison,  (17) 
William^,  born  March  7,  176S,  (18)  Anne  Armistead  Allen  (bom 
1777,  died  April  27,  1833),  wlio  married  John  Edloe,*  (19) 
Martha  Bland  (born  June  30,  1780,  died  April  21,  1814),  who 

*  Issue  of  Anne  Armistead  Allen  and  John  Edloe :  ( 1 )  Carter  H. 
(born  1798,  died  1843),  (2)  :\lary  Allen,  born  September  9,  1800,  died 
September  IG,  1855,  who  married  Dr.  X.  M.  0->borne,  (3)  Martha  Armis- 
iead,  married  Richard  Grillin  Orgain. 


112  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

married  Miles  Selden  (Quarterly,  YI.,  p.  235).  William 
Allen's  Tvill  was  proved  in  Surry  county  September  24,  1790. 
There  were  three  other  children,  who  died  young,  Joseph,  Han- 
nah and  Mildred. 

17  William^  Allex,  son  of  Col.  William*  Allen  and  Mary 
Lightfoot,  was  born  March  7,  1768,  and  he  died  Xovember  2, 
1831.  He  resided  at  Claremont,  Surry  county,  Ya.,  where  his 
tombstone  still  lies.  He  had  no  children,  and  left  his  large 
estates  to  William  Griffin  Orgain,  son  of  Richard  Griffin  Orgain  * 
(by  his  niece,  Martha  Edloe,  born  March  31,  1803,  died  Tebru- 
ary  12,  1857,  daughter  of  John  Edloe),  on  his  taking  the  name 
of  William  Allen  or  to  the  son  of  William  Griffin  Orgain  on  like 
condition,  but  in  case  of  William  G.  Orgain's  death  without  a 
son,  then  the  property  was  to  go  to  his  nephew  Carter  PL  Har- 
rison. In  his  will  Col.  Allen  mentions  his  great-nieces  Anne 
Carter  Harrison  and  Mar}'  Howell  Harrison. 

William  Griffin  Orgain  took  the  name  of  William  Allen,  and 
was  colonel  in  the  war  between  the  States.  He  armed  and  fed  a 
company  at  his  own  expense.  He  married  Fannie  Jessups,  of 
Canada,  and  left  issue,  William  and  other  children. 


TOMBSTOXES  AT  CLAREMONT,  SURRY  COTTXTY. 

THIS  MOXUMEXT 

is  erected  in  commemoration 

COLONEL  WILLIAM  ALLEN 

OF  CLAREMONT 

Whose  remains  are  here  intered. 

He  was  born 

on  the  7*^  day  of  March  1768 

and  died 

on  the  29^^  day  of  November  1831. 

Aged  63  Years  8  Months  and  22  Days. 

*R.  Griffin  Orj^ain  (born  September  2.5,  1787,  died  July  17,  1830) 
had  by  Martha  Armistead  Edloe  (born  March  31,  1803,  died  February 
12,  1857),  (1)  ilontgomery  McKenzie  Orgain  (born  February  12,  1824, 
died  July  15,  1824),  (2)  Elizabeth  C.  Orgain,  who  married  Powhatan 
Starke,  (3)  Mary  M.  Orgain,  who  married  Archibald  Harrison,  (4) 
William  Griffin. 


Tombstones  at  Claremont,  Surry  County.         113 

(Allen  and  Bassett  Arms.) 

To  the  ^remory  of 

ELIZABETH 

(Daughter  of  William  Bassett  Efq: 

One  of  the  Council  in  Virginia;) 

A  sincere  Chriftian,  a  constant  communicant 

An  affectionate  Consort,  an  Indulgent  Parent, 

A  Tender  Mistrefs,  a  Friendly  Neighbor. 

Pious,  without  Superstition: 

Regular,  without  Ill-humour. 

Charitable  without  Oftentation 

Beloved  in  her  Life  time 

Bewailed  at  her  Death. 

Especialy  by  her  Husband,  John  Allen. 

She  died  on  the  14^^  day  of  Oct.  1738. 

In  the  42'^  Year  of  her  Age. 


Sacred 
To  the  memory  of 

^^^IISTEAD    ^^ 

Consort  of 

JOHN"  EDLOE 

Who  died  April  27.  1833. 

Aged  56  YEARS  &  32  Days. 

o®o  (g)  o<o)o 

And  I  heard  a  voice  from  Heaven 

Saying  unto  me;   Write,  blessed 

are  the  dead  which  die  in  the 

Lord  from  henceforth:   Yea  Saith 

the  Spirit.  That  they  may  rest 

From  their  Labours;    and  their 

works  do  follow  them.  Rev.  xiv,  13. 

e®e  ®  o(§)o 

In  respectful  remembrance  of 

Their  Mother 

This  monument  is  erected  and 

Inscribed  by  her 

Affectionate  children. 


114  William  and  Mary  College  Quaeteely, 

^^^  BOim  ^'^ 

March  Sl^'^  1S03 

DIED 

February  12^^  1857. 


IN  MEMORY  OF 

MES  MAEY  ALLEN  OSBOEXE 

Oldest  daughter  of  John  &  Ann  A.  Edloe. 

born  Sept^  d^^  1800.  was  married 

March  20*^  1820  to  Dr.  N.  M.  OSBORNE 

Died  Sept^  16^^  1855  of  apoplexy 

at  the  Salt  Sulphur  Springs  Va, 


MEMENTO  MORI 

In  remembrance  of 

JOHN  EDLOE 

Who  died  August,  1816, 

Aged  51  Years,  Days. 

This  stone 

is  erected  as  a  tribute  of  respect  by  his  children. 


IN 

memory  of 

CARTER  H.  EDLOE 

Who  was  born  August  28^^  1798 

and  died  August  26^^^  1843 

of  apoplexy 

This  stone  is  erected  by  his  nieces  E.  C.  &  M.  M.  Orgain. 


IN 

memory  of 
R.  GRIFFIN  ORGAIN 

Who  was  born  Sept''  25^^  1787 
and  died  July  17^^  1830. 


Will  of  John  Tiiruston.  Ho 

SACRED 

to  the  memory  of 

MONTGOMERY  MACKENZIE 

Son  of 

Griffin  &  Martha  Arraistead  Orgain 

Bom  the  12^^  of  February  1824 

and  departed  this  life 

the  15^^  day  of  July 

of  the  same  year 

Aged  5  months  and  3  Days. 

Death  may  the  bands  of  life  unloose 

But  can^t  disolve  our  love 
Millions  of  infant  souls  compose 

The  family  above. 


WILL  OF  JOHN  THRUSTON,  CHAMBERLAIN  OF 
BRISTOL. 

{Concluded  from  page  51.) 
And  it  is  my  will  and  meaning  That  if  my  said  daughter  Grace 
after  the  decease  of  my  said  wife  shall  come  to  the  possession  and 
actual  enjoyment  of  the  said  messuage  tenement  and  premisses 
That  then  she  the  said  Grace  shall  out  of  the  rents  issues  and 
proffitts  of  the  same  premisses  pay  and  satislfy  vnto  my  said  two 
daughters  Rachell  and  Sara  during  their  naturall  lines  The 
yearly  some  of  fine  pounds  of  lawfull  money  of  England  a  peece 
att  fower  feasts  or  termes  in  the  yeare :  (To  wit)  The  Annuncia- 
tion of  the  blessed  virgin  Mary  The  nativity  of  St  John  Baptist 
St  Michael  the  Archangell  And  the  birth  of  our  Lord  God  by 
even  and  equall  porcons  or  within  twenty  and  eight  dayes  next 
after  every  of  the  same  feasts  respectively  The  first  payment  to  be 
made  at  that  of  the  said  feast  dayes  which  shall  come  and  be  next 
after  the  decease  of  my  said  wife  or  within  twenty  and  eight 
dayes  after  the  same  Feast  day  And  I  doe  also  declare  my  will  to 
be  that  if  the  said  Grace  my  daughter  shall  dye  in  the  life  time  of 
my  said  daughters  Rachell  and  Sara  whereby  my  said  daughter 
Rachell  shall  come  to  the  possession  and  actuall  enjoyment  of  the 
said  messuage  and  tenement  That  then  she  the  said  Rachell  shall 


116  William  axd  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

pay  vnto  my  said  daugliter  Sara  one  yearly  some  of  tonn  pounds 
of  lawful  money  of  England  at  the  Feast  dayes  aforesaid  by  even 
and  equall  porcons  or  within  twenty  and  eight  dayes  next  after 
every  of  the  same  feast  dayes  Eespectiuely  the  first  of  the  same 
payments  To  be  made  att  that  of  the  said  feast  dayes  which  shall 
come  and  be  next  after  my  said  daughter  EachcU  shall  come  to 
the  possession  and  actuall  enjoyment  of  the  same  premisses  or 
within  twenty  and  eight  dayes  next  after  the  same  feast  day  And 
I  do  further  declare  my  will  to  be  That  if  two  of  my  said  three* 
daughters  shall  dye  whereby  the  survivor  of  them  shall  come  to 
the  possession  and  actuall  enjoyment  of  the  same  premisses  That 
then  the  survivor  of  them  the  said  three  daughters  shall  pay  vnto 
my  said  two  other  daughters  Anne  and  Justine  (my  daughters  by 
my  former  wife)  The  yearly  some  of  tenn  pounds  of  lawfull 
money  of  England  equally  betweene  them  att  the  foure  feast 
dayes  which  shall  come  and  be  after  the  survivor  of  my  said  three 
daughters  shall  come  to  the  possession  and  actual  enjoyment  of 
the  same  premisses  or  within  twenty  and  eight  dayes  next  after 
the  same  feast  day  And  if  but  one  of  my  said  daughters  Ann  and 
Justine  shalbe  then  liueing  Then  the  same  yearly  sume  of  lenn 
pounds  shalbe  paid  Mito  the  survivor  of  them  the  said  Anne  and 
Justine  and  I  doe  hereby  giue  vnto  my  said  daughters  respectively 
who  are  to  receiue  any  yearly  sume  out  of  the  said  messuage  and 
tepement  my  full  and  free  powder  licence  and  authority  to  enter 
into  the  premisses  respectively  when  and  often  any  some  or 
somes  of  money  shalbe  behind  and  vnpaid  And  then  and  there  to 
distreine  for  the  same  and  the  arrearages  thereof  if  any  shalbe 
And  I  doe  further  declare  my  will  and  meaning  to  be  That  my 
said  wife  and  three  daughters  as  they  shall  come  to  the  possession 
and  actuall  enjoyment  of  the  premisses  shall  pay  beare  and  dis- 
charge all  Lords  Rents  reparacons  and  services  for  and  in  respect 
of  tlie  same  premises  to  be  paid  done  and  performed  And  I  doe 
hereby  desire  will  and  enjoyne  my  said  wife  that  she  will  after 
my  decease  seale  and  execute  all  such  release  or  releases  or  other 
deed  or  deeds  as  shalbe  by  the  said  John  Knight  and  Eobert 
Aldworth  or  the  survivor  of  them  or  his'  heires  thought  fi.tt  and 
necessary  for  the  releasing  and  extinguisliing  of  all  dower  and 
right  and  title  of  dower  which  she  may  any  way  clayme  or  de- 
maund  to  haue  of  in  or  to  my  said  lands  in  Stapleton  Item 
•whereas  John  Hunt  deceased   (late  husband  of  my  daughter 


Will  of  John  Thkuston.  117 

Thomazine  Hunt)  dyed  indebted  vnto  mec  in  divers  somes  of 
money  for  the  payment  whereof  I  haue  severall  mortgages  bonds 
and  securities  from  him  the  said  John  Hunt  which  are  all  of 
them  long  since  forfeited  and  in  force  And  whereas  alsoe  my 
.■said  daughter  Thomazine  Hunt  oweth  me  a  considerable  sume  of 
money  for  arrears  of  rent  of  the  messuage  and  tenement  wherein 
she  now  dwelleth  scituate  and  being  in  Tuckerstreete  in  the  par- 
ish of  St  Thomas  within  the  said  Citty  of  BristoU  Xow  I  doe 
•  liereby  remise  release  and  forgiue  And  the  heires  executors  and 
administrators  of  the  said  John  Hunt  the  same  some  and  somes 
of  money  rents  arrearages  of  rents  debt  and  demaunds  whatsoever 
And  doe  order  and  will  that  my  Executrix  do  deliuer  up  vnto 
her  the  said  Thomazine  Hunt  all  the  same  mortgages  bonds  and 
securities  And  doe  desire  my  said  executrix  To  doe  all  acts  and 
things  whatsoever  expedient  and  necessary  to  be  done  therein 
for  the  best  benefitt  and  advantage  of  my  said  daughter  Thoma- 
zine Hunt  and  her  children  Provided  alwayes  and  I  doe  hereby 
declare  my  will  and  meaning  to  be  That  I  haue  released  and  for- 
given my  said  daughter  Thomazine  in  forme  aforesaid  vpon  this 
condicon  That  she  the  said  Thomazine  shall  imediately  from  and 
after  my  decease  receiue  into  her  care  and  tuition  my  said  Grand- 
sonne  John  Thruston  and  shall  giue  and  allow  him  competent 
and  sufficient  meat  drinke  lodging  cloathing  schooling  and  other 
necessaries  vntill  he  shall  attaine  to  his  age  of  one  and  twenty 
yeares  And  I  do  charge  my  said  daughter  Thomazine  That  she 
-will  be  very  carefull  (as  I  doubt  not  but  she  will)  That  the  said 
John  may  be  vertuously  bred  upp  And  I  doe  desire  my  wife  to 
•contribute  her  assistance  therein  And  for  my  daughters  better  in- 
couragement  therein  I  doe  Giue  and  bequeath  vnto  my  said 
■daughter  Thomazine  Hunt  the  said  messuage  and  tenement  in 
Tucker  Streete  aforesaid  wherein  she  now  dwelleth  (except  the 
Backeri  Chamber  of  the  same  house  one  house  one  story  high  To 
haue  and  to  hold  the  same  house  with  the  appurtennces  (except 
the  same  Chamber)  vnto  my  said  daughter  Thomazine  for  all  my 
terme  of  yeares  and  interest  therein  to  come  and  vnexpired  at  the 
"time  of  my  decease  she  the  said  Thomazine  paying  and  discharg- 
ing all  cheife  rents  reparacons  and  agreements  for  and  in  respect 
of  the  same  to  be  paid  done  and  performed  And  I  doe  declare 
my  will  and  meaninge  to  be  That  my  said  daughters  Anne  and 
Justine  shall  as  they  shall  have  occasion  from  time  to  time  enjoy 


118  WILLIA:^E  AND  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

either  joyntly  or  severally  the  said  Backer  Chamber  of  the  said 
house  And  shall  haue  fall  and  free  liberty  of  ingress  egresse  and 
regresse  in  to  and  from  the  same  att  all  times  Item  I  doe  giue  and 
bequeathe  vnto  my  said  daughters  Anne  and  Justine  my  Stable 
and  garden  in  St.  Thomas  Street  in  the  Citty  of  Bristoll  which  I 
hold  by  lease  from  the  feoffees  of  the  lands  of  and  belonging  to 
the  parish  church  of  St  Thomas  aforesaid  To  be  had  and  holden 
vnto  them  my  said  daughters  Anne  and  Justine  their  executors 
administrators  and  assignes  for  all  my  terme  and  interest  therein 
to  come  and  unexpired  att  the  time  of  my  decease  They  the  said 
Anne  and  Justine  their  executors  administrators  and  assignes 
paying  and  discharging  all  rents  reparacons  and  services  for  and 
in  respect  of  the  same  premisses  to  be t  paid  done  and  performed 
Item  I  doe  giue  and  bequeath  vnto  my  said  sonne  Edward  Thrus- 
ton  my  best  black  cloth  suite  and  coate  and  silke  coate  and  silke 
dublett  Item  I  doe  giue  and  bequeath  vnto  John  Curtis  my  late 
servant  and  apprentice  the  sume  of  forty  shillings  of  lawfull 
money  of  England  Item  I  doe  giue  and  bequeath  vnto  my  good 
friends  Mr  Eobert  Amberson  the  sume  of  tenn  shillings  of  lawfull 
money  of  England  to  buy  him  a  ring  to  weare  as  a  token  of  my 
loue  Item  I  doe  giue  and  bequeath  vnto  Mr.  Humfrey  Brent 
(minister  of  the  Gospell)  the  sume  of  forty  shillings  of  lawfull 
money  of  England  to  preach  my  funerall  sermon  Item  I  doe  giue 
and  bequeath  vnto  my  friend  Mr  Thomas  Yeomans  the  sume  of 
forty  shillings  of  lawfull  money  of  England  to  buy  him  a  ring  to 
weare  as  a  token  of  my  loue  Item  I  doe  giue  and  bequeath  vnto 
Johane  servant  vnto  my  daughter  Hunt  the  sum  of  tenn  shillings 
of  lawfull  money  of  England  Item  I  do  giue  and  bequeath  vnto 

my  servant  maid  the  sume  of  tenn  shillings  of  lawful! 

money  of  England  And  last  of  all  I  doe  hereby  giue  and  beqeath 
vnto  my  said  deare  and  loueing  wife  Mary  The  one  moity  or  halfe 
part  (the  whole  into  two  equall  parts  to  be  divided)  of  all  and 
singular  my  goods  chattells  lynnen  woollen  plate  brasse  pewter 
rings  Jewells  househould  stuffe  and  of  all  other  my  estate  whatso- 
ever not  herein  before  by  mee  giuen  and  bequeathed  ]\Iy  debts  and 
legacies  being  paid  and  funerall  expenses  discharged  To  haue 
and  to  hold  the  same  moiety  or  half  parte  ^Tito  my  said  wife  for 
and  during  the  terme  of  her  naturall  life  and  from  and  after  her 
decease  I  doe  giue  and  bequeath  all  the  same  moiety  or  half  parte 
of  the  same  goods  and  otherestate  vnto  my  said  three  danghters 


Randolph  Family.  119' 

Grace  Sara  and  Rachell  equally  to  he  devidcrl  botweene  them  part 
and  part  alike  Item  all  the  other  moiety  or  half  parte  (the  whole 
into  two  equal  parts  to  be  divided  as  aforesaid)  of  all  my  said 
goods  chattells  lynnen  woollen  plate  brasse  pewter  househould 
stuffe  rings  Jewells  and  of  all  other  my  estate  whatsoever  not 
herein- before  by  me  giuen  and  bequeathed  (my  debts  and  lega- 
cies being  paid  and  funerall  cxpences  discharged)  I  doe  giue' 
and  bequeath  vnto  my  said  two  daughters  Autig  and  Justine 
equally  to  be  divided  betweene  them  part  and  part  like  Item  I  doe 
make  constitute  and  appoint  the  said  ^[arv'  my  wife  full  and  sole 
Executrix  of  this  my  last  will  and  testament  And  I  doe  desire 
and  intreate  the  said  John  Knight  and  Eobert  Aldworth  to  be 
overseers  of  this  my  last  will  and  testament  And  to  be  ayding 
and  assisting  To  my  said  wife  and  children  in  the  managing  of 
their  affaires  And  I  doe  giue  them  forty  shillings  to  bny  them 
each  of  them  a  ring  as  tokens  of  my  loue  And  I  doe  declare  my 
will  and  desire  to  be  That  all  charges  whatsoever  relating  to  the 
execution  of  the  trust  hereby  by  mee  reposed  in  my  said  friends 
or  either  of  them  shalbe  paid  and  reimbursed  them  out  of  the 
purchase  money  to  be  raised  by  the  sale  of  my  lands  Ipng  in 
Stapleton  aforesaid  Item  I  doe  remitt  and  forgiue  vnto  my  sonne 
Edward  all  debts  which  he  oweth  me  And  doe  order  That  all  his 
bills  of  debt  and  writings  shalbe  deliuered  up  vnto  him  and 
finallv  I  do  revoke  and  make  void  all  former  wills  bv  me  made 
And  doe  publish  this  to  be  my  last  will  and  testament  this  five 
and  twentieth  day  of  March  Anno  Dni  16 To  Annoq  EE  Caroli 
Secundi  Angliae  &c  vicesimo  Septimo  ^^  mee — JOHN"  THEUS- 
TON — Signed  sealed  published  and  acknowledged  by  the  said 
John  Thrjston  the  day  of  the  date  hereof  in  the  presence  of 
Micha:  Hunt  1675  Sam:  Bertram  Joseph  Eiles  1674. 
Hunt  1675  Sam :  Bertram  Joseph  Eiles  1674. 
Proved' 3rd  Mav  1675. 


RANDOLPH  FAMILY. 

By  W.  G.  Stanard. 

[Continued  from  Vol.  VII.,  pp.  122,  195.] 

Issue  of  Thomas  M.  and  Anne   (Car}')   Eandolph:  i,  Mary^ 

born  August  9,  1762,  married  David  Meade  Eandolph,  of  Pres- 

que  Isle,  Chesterfield;  ii.  Henry  Cary,  born  about  1769,  died 


120  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

young;  iii.  Elizabeth,  born  about  ITGo,  married  Robert  Plea>- 
ants,  of  Filmer;  iv.  Thomas  Mann,  of  Edge  Hill,  Albemarle, 
born  about  17G7,  died  June  20,  1828,  served  in  United  States 
army,  and  became  colonel  of  the  Twentieth  infantry  1813,  fre- 
quently delegate  from  Albemarle,  member  of  Congress  1803-'7, 
governor  1819-'22,  married  ]\[artha,  daughter  of  President 
Jefferson;  v.  William,  of  Chitower,  born  a])out  1T69,  married 
Lucy  Boiling,  daughter  of  Colonel  Peter  Randolph,  of  Chats- 
-worth;  vi.  Archibald  Cary,  died  young;  vii.  Judith,  married 
Piichard  Randolph,  of  Bizarre ;  viii.  Anne  Cary,  married  Gouver- 
neur  Morris,  of  Morrisania,  N.  Y.,  United  States  Senator  and 
Minister  to  France ;  ix.  Jane  Cary,  married  Thomas  Esten  Ran- 
dolph, of  Bristol,  England;  x.  Doctor  John,  of  Middle  Quarter, 
Goochland,  married  Judith  Lewis,  of  Amelia;  xi.  George  Wash- 
ington, died  young;  xii.  Harriet,  married  Richard  S.  Hackley,- 
of  Xew  York  (one  of  their  daughters  married  Captain  Andrew 
Talcott,  L^nited  States  Army,  and  was  mother  of  Colonel  T.  M. 
R.  Talcott) ;  xiii.  Virginia,  born  January  31,  1786,  married 
Wilson  Jefferson  Cary,  of  Carybrook,  Fluvanna. 

Issue  of  Thomas  Mann  and  Martha  ( Jeft'erson)  Randolph,  of 
Edge  Hill:  i.  Anne  Car}-,  born  1791,  married  Charles  Bank- 
head;  ii.  Colonel  Thomas  Jefferson,  of  Edge  Hill,  born  1792, 
died  1875,  frequently  delegate  from  Albemarle,  member  of  Con- 
Yention  of  1851,  presidential  elector  181:5,  and  president  of  the 
^N'ational  Democratic  Convention  of  Baltimore  1873,  married 
Jane,  daughter  of  Governor  Wilson  Cary  Nicholas,  Albemarle; 
iii.  Ellen,  died  young;  iv.  Ellen  Wayles,  married  Joseph  Cool- 
idge,  of  Boston,  Mass.;  v.  James  Madison,  died  unmarried;  vi. 
•Cornelia  Jefferson,  died  unmarried;  vii.  Virginia,  married  X.  P. 
Trist;  viii.  Benjamin  Franklin,  married  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Robert  Carter;  ix.  Meriwether  Lewis,  married  Eliza  Wharton, 
no  issue;  x.  George  Wythe,  born  1801,  died  April  4,  1867,  lieu- 
tenant United  States  Army,  brigadier-general  Confederate 
States  Army,  Secretary  of  War  of  the  Confederate  States,  sent 
to  France  1863  as  agent  of  Confederate  government,  married 
llary,  daughter  of  Richard  Adams,  of  Richmond ;  no  issue.  . 

Issue  of  Thomas  Jefferson  and  Jane  (Nicholas)  Randolph:  i. 
Margaret  Smith,  married  William  Lewis  Randolph;  ii.  Martha 
Jefferson,  married  J.  C.  Randolph  Ta3ior,  of  Albemarle;  iii. 
Cary  Anne  Xicholas,  married  Colonel  Frank  G.  Ruffin,  Stare 


Randolph  Fa^iily.  121 

Auditor;  iv.  Mary  Buchanan,  died  young;  v.  Mary  Buch- 
anan, of  Edge  Hill;  vi.  Ellen  Waylcs,  married  William  B. 
Harrison  [t],  of  Upper  Brandon  (his  second  wife) ;  vii.  Maria 
Jefferson  Carr,  married  Charles  Mason;  viii.  Caroline  Ramsay; 
ix.  Thomas  Jefferson,  of  Edge  Hill,  horn  about  1830,  died 
1870,  .married,  first,  Mary  Walker  ^leriwether,  second,  Char- 
lotte X.  Meriwether;  x.  Doctor  Wilson  Gary  Nicholas,  of  Char- 
lottesville, married  Mary  Holliday;  xi.  Jane  Nicholas,  married 
R.  G.  H.  Kean;  xii.  Meriwether  Lewis,  of  Edge  Hill,  captain  of 
artillerv'  Confederate  States  Army,  horn  aljout  1S3G,  died  1870^ 
married  Anna  T.  Daniel,  of  Cumberland;  xiii.  Sarah  Nicholas^/ 
author  of  Memoirs  of  J e person  and  other  works. 

Issue  of  Thomas  J.  Randolph,  Jr.,  by  his  first  marriage  with 
Mary  W.  AFeriwether:  i.  Frank  Aferiwether,  married  Charlotte 
Mason;  ii.  Thomas  J.;  iii.  Margaret  Doughlas,  died  young;  iv. 
Francis  Nelson,  died  young;  v.  George  Geiger. 

Issue  of  T.  J.  Randolph,  Jr.,  by  second  marriage  with  C.  N, 
Meriwether :  i.  Mary  Walker. 

Issue  of  Doctor  W.  C.  N.  and  Mary  (Holliday)  Randolph:  i. 
Virginia  Rawlings;  ii.  Wilson  C.  N. ;  iii.  Mary  Walker;  iv.  Julia 
Minor. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  F.  and  Sarah  (Carter)  Randolph:  i.  Isetta,. 
married  James  Hubbard,  and  had  Robert,  Lou,  Sally  and 
Susan;  ii.  Robert;  iii.  Septimia,  married  Doctor  David  Meikel- 
ham.     ' 

Issue  of  William  and  Lucy  (Boiling)  Randolph,  of  Chitower: 
i.  William  Fitzhugh,  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Randolph  Har- 
rison, of  Clifton;  ii.  Beverley,  married Mayor,  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  had  one  son,  William  Mayor,  who  removed  to  St. 
Louis,  Mo. 

Issue  of ,  William  Fitzhugh  and  Jane  (Harrison)  Randolph: 

i. ,  daughter,  married  George  Tabb,  of  Gloucester;  ii.  Esten, 

of  Clark  county,  married,  first,  Eppes,  second.  Sue  Ran- 
dolph; iii.  Major  Beverley,  of  Clark,  served  in  United  States 
Navy,  and  resigned  as  master  in  1850,  married  ^Earv',  daughter 
of  Grymes  Randolph  (his  eldest  son,  Beverley,  entered  the 
Confederate  States  Army  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  and  was  killed 
going  into  action  near  Greenwood,  Albemarle,  March  21,  1865)  ; 
iv.  Virginia;  v,  Lucius. 

Thomas  Esten  Randolph,  of  Bristol,  and  afterwards  marshal 


122  WiLLiAivr  AND  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

of  Middle  Florida,  and  his  wife,  Jane  Gary  Eandolph,  had  issue: 
i.  Mann,  captain  United  States  Xavy;  ii.  Doctor  James,  of 
Tallahassee,  Florida,  married —^s^  Heywood ;  iii.  Lucy,  married 

Parkhill,  of   Jacksonville;   iv.   Harriett,   married,   1831, 

Doctor  L.  Willis ;  v.  Elizabeth,  married  Francis  Wayles  Eppes, 
son  of  ¥mted  States  Senator  John  W.  Eppes;  vi.  Doctor  Arthur, 
of  Tallahassee,  married Duval,  and  had  issue. 

Issue  of  Doctor  John  and  Judith  (Lewis)  Randolph,  with 
other  issue:  i.  William  Lewis,  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Colonel  Thomas  J.  Eandolph,  of  Edge  Hill,  and  had  issue:  i. 
Margaret,  married  Edward  C.  Anderson,  of  Savannah,  Ga. ;  ii. 
William  Lewis,  of  Albemarle,  married  Agnes  Dillon,  of  Savan- 
nah, and  had  five  children. 

Issue  of  Isham  and  Jane  (Rogers)  Randolph,  of  Dungeness: 
i.  Jane,  bom  in  London  1720,  died  17T6,  married  Peter  Jeffer- 
son [u],  of  Shadwell,  Albemarle,  and  was  the  mother  of  Presi- 
dent Thomas  Jefferson;  ii.  Thomas  Isham,  of  Dungeness,  mar- 
ried Jane,  daughter  of  Colonel  Archibald  Cary,  of  Ampthill ;  iii. 

William  removed  to  Bristol,  married  Little;  iv.   Mary, 

married  Charles  Lewis;  v.  Elizabeth,  married  John  Railey;  vi. 
Dorothy,  married  John  Woodson,  of  Goochland;  vii.  Anne,  mar- 
ried, first,  Daniel  Scott,  second,  Jonathan  Pleasants,  of  Free 
Creek,  and,  third,  Jas.  Pleasants,  of  Contention,  Goochland, 
and  by  last  marriage  was  mother  of  James  .Pleasants,  United 
States  Senator  and  Governor  of  Virginia";  "viii.  Susanna,  mar- 
ried Carter  Harrison,  of  Clifton.  - 


CHRISTIAN  FAMILY. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  VIII.,  page  74.) 

Descexdaxts  of  57  William  Ciiristiax. 

57  William^  Christian.  Believed  to  he  a  son  of  4  James- 
Christian,  as  stated  in  the  QuAriTERLY  for  April,  1897,  page  263.* 
He  married,  first  (it  is  thought),  a  Miss  Collier;   second,  Susan 

*  The  estate  of  William  Christian  was  appraised  in  Charles  Citv 
county  on  March  11,  1771,  and  it  is  therefore  certain  that  he  could  not 
have  been  a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  for  that  county  in  1775, 
as  suggested  in  the  Quarterly,  at  page  2G3.  It  was,  doubtless,  his  son 
William  who  was  of  that  committee. 


Christian  Family.  123 

J^rowne.*  By  his  first  wife  he  is  said  to  Imve  had  :  1  William' ;  2 
John^,  (called  in  the  records  "of  Xew  Kent").  By  his  second 
wife  he  had: ^3  XmiQ,  born  Feby  21,  baptised  ^id\  13,  1735,  (un- 
traced);  4  William  Broivne-;  o  Iletirif;  G  Elizabeth,  (un- 
traced) ;  7  Mary,  who  married  William  Douglas,  nephew  of 
Francis  Jerdone,  {see  under  11  Robert'^  CJbristian,  post.) ;  8 
Susanna,  born  May  29,  baptised  July  10,  1757,  (nntraced) ;  9 
Turner-. 

1  William^  Christian  (57  William'^).  Lived  at  "Cherry 
Bottom,"  on  the  Chickahominy  river,  in  Charles  City  Co.,  a  part 
of  the  land  included  in  the  original  grant  to  Thomas  Christian 
in  1687.  He  devised  this  place  to  his  son  Thomas,  w^hose  daugh- 
ter Louisa  still  o^vns  and  occupies  it.  (See  post,  under  18 
Thomas^  Christian).  He  was  a  member,  in  1775,  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Safety  for  Charles  City  Co.f    He  married,  first,  Eliza- 

*  Susan  Browne  was,  doubtless,  sister  of  William  Browne,  of  James 
City,  who  had  a  daughter  Susan,  who  married  Gideon  Christian,  and  a 
daughter  Mary,  who  married  Robert  Christian.  Susan  and  William 
were  doubtless  children  of  William  Browne  (who  appears  in  St.  Peter's 
Kegister  as  owning  slaves  in  New  Kent  in  1727)  and  of  Susan  Browne, 
who  died  August  2,  1728.  The  last  William  may  have  been  a  brother  of 
John  Browne,  vestryman  of  St.  Peter's  in  1725  (who  married  Mary 
Wiiarton,  January  4,  170S-'09),  and  a  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
Browne,  living  in  New  Kent  about  1680. 

t  Reference  has  already  been  made  to  the  constant  recurrence  of  the 
name  Williajii  in  this  family.  It  has  been  the  source  of  some  confusion 
and  much  anxiety  in  the  preparation  of  this  article.  The  William  now 
under  consideration  must  not  be  confounded  with  either  of  the  Williams 
mentioned  in  Heitman's  Historical  Register  of  Officers  of  the  Continental 
Army.  The  first  of  these  is  evidently  Col.  William  Christian  who  mar- 
ried Anne,  sister  of  Patrick  Henry.  In  1775  he  was  Lt.  Colonel  of  the 
1st  Virginia  Regiment,  of  which  ilr.  Henry  was  Colonel.  In  1776  he 
became  Colonel  of  the  first  battalion  of  Mrginia  militia  and  served  with 
distinction  against  the  Indians.  It  is  well  known  that  he  removed  with 
his  family  to  Kentucky  about  1783-4,  and  was  killed  there  by  the 
Indians  in  1786.  2  Henry's  Life  of  Patrick  Henry,  285;  1  Idem., 
320-462-4.  He  was  the  son  of  Capt.  Israel  Christian,  who  was  a  mer- 
chant in  Staunton,  and  afterwards  moved  to  that  part  of  Augusta 
known  as  Botetourt  County,  and  founded  the  towns  of  Fincastle  and 
Christiansburg.  It  is  said  that  this  Israel  is  not  of  the  Charles  City 
and  New  Kent  branches  of  the  family,  but  came  of  the  Scotch-Irish 
stock  which  figured  so  largely  in  the  settlement  of  the  Valley.  See  Pey- 
ton's History  of  Augusta  Co.,  313.  The  name  Israel  Christian  occurs, 
h.owever,  in  Kingston  Parish  Register,  Mathews  Co.,  in  1757. 

The  second  William  Christian  mentioned  by  Heitman  as  '*2nd  Lieu- 


124  WiLLiA^r  AND  Mar^'  College  Quarterly. 

beth  Collier  (sister  of  Mildred  Collier,  wife  of  his  brother  John), 
and,  second,  Sally  x\tkins.  By  his  iirst  wife  he  had :  10  William,* 
married,  iirst,  Miss  Diiiguid  (sister  of  Joyce  Diiiguid,  wife  of  •^S 
George  Christian,  post.),  second,  ^Irs.  Thoroiighgood,  by  whom 
he  had  a  daughter,  who  died  in  infancy;  it  is  believed  that  he 
had  no  issue  by  his  first  marriage ;  11  Robert^,  born  May  5,  17G0 ; 
12  Henry  Benshiti^ ;  13  il/ayor  EO.mund?;  14  Capt.  Joups 
Elvers^;  15  Jolin^,  (called  in  the  records  "of  Charles  City'^) ; 
16  Elizabeth;!  17  Jane.l    By  his  second  wife,  Sally  Atkins,  he 


tenant,  10th  Virginia  Regiment,  Dec.  3,  1770;  resigned  Jan'y  13,  1778,'* 
and  who  is  spoken  of  in  the  records  of  the  Pension  Office  at  Washington 
as  "a  lieutenant  in  Capt.  John  Syine's  company  of  regulars,  10th  Vir- 
ginia Regiment,  commanded  by  Maj.  Samuel  Ilawes,  commissioned  Dec. 
3,  1776,"  was  also  from  Augusta  Co.,  where  Capt.  John  Syme's  company 
was  organized  on  Dec.  3,  1776  (see  Waddell's  Annals  of  Augusta  Count ii, 
page  159),  and  was,  no  doubt,  the  same  man  who  was  a  member  of  the 
"Council  of  War,"  held  at  the  courtliouse  of  Augusta,  July  27,  1756,  as 
mentioned  by  Waddell  at  page  90. 

In  Document  No.  43,  Journal  House  of  Delegates,  1834,  being  a  "List 
of  Xon-Commissioned  Officers  and  Soldiers  of  the  Virginia  State  Line," 
&c.,  who  had  not  then  received  Bounty  land,  occur  the  names  of  "James 
Christian,  soldier,  artillery,"  and  "William  Christian,  Sergeant,  artil- 
lery." 

In  Document  Xo.  44,  Journal  House  of  Representatives,  1834,  being 
"A  List  of  Xon-Coramissioned  Officers  and  Soldiers  of  the  Virginia  Line 
01}  Continental  Establishment,"  &c.,  who  had  not  then  received  Bounty 
land,  appear  these  names:  John  Christian,  Sergeant,  infantry;  George 
Christian,  soldier,  infantry;  Walter  Christian,  soldier,  infantry:  Joseph 
Christian,  soldier,  infantry;    Richard  Christian,  soldier,  infantry. 

*  He  is  not  mentioned  in  the  will  of  his  father,  for  the  reason,  it  is 
thought,  thtit  he  died  before  the  date  of  the  will  (1806),  and  left  no 
issue.  He  w*as  a  man  of  high  spirits  and  irregular  habits  of  life,  and  was 
familiarly  kno^\^l  as  ''Wicked  Willie."  The  manuscript  .of  Dr.  Samuel 
P.  Christian  leaves  no  room  for  doubt  as  to  his  identity,  but  it  is  not 
certain  that  he  was  his  father's  first  child. 

tl6  Elizabeth  Christian  married  Wyatt  Walker,  brother  of  William 
Freeman  Walker,  and  had  issue:  1  Elizabeth,  who  married  Dr.  Watt 
Tyler,  brother  of  President  John  Tyler;  2  William,  who  married  Locky 
Clayton;   3  Robert  Christian,  who  married  Mary  A.  Clayton;   4  Sally 

Henry,  who  married  William  F.  Graves;  5  ]\fartha,  who  married 

Pierce;  6  Thomas,  who  married  Sarah  INIinge. 

t  17  Jaise  Christiax  married  Edward  Warren,  and  had  issue:  1 
Elizabeth,  who  married  her  cousin.  Dr.  Jordan  Collier  Christian  [sec 
post,  uyider  26  Dr.  Collier')  ;    2  Jane,  who  married,  first,  Joim  Ireland, 


Christian  Family.  125 

had:  18  Thomas^;  19  Jacquelirie  (never  married) ;  20  Patsey;* 
21  George  Hunt  (never  married) ;  22  Alexander  (never  mar- 
ried) ;    23  U>i^^•    24:  Frederick^:    25  Frances. f 

2  JOH.N^  Christian^  called  in  the  records  "of  New  Kent." 
(57  William^).  Lived  at  "Roxbury"  (now  "Mountcastles"),  New 
Kent  county;  his  will  was  proved  in  that  county  Sept.  10th, 
1801,  and  a  copy  is  filed  in  a  suit  in  Williamsburg.  Married 
Mildred  Collier,  sister  of  Elizabeth,  wife  of  his  brother  William, 
and  had:  26  Dr.  Collier';  27  ArcMho.W ;  28  George';  29  Col, 
John  Hunt',  born  Sept.  1,  1774;   30  Mary.$ 

4  William  Browne^  Ciiristiax  (57  WilUam^).  Married 
Elizabeth  Ward,  but  died  in  1805,  without  issue.  His  will  was 
probated  in  Charles  City  County  Court,  Octo.  17,  1805. 

5  Hexry-  Christian  (57  William^).  Lived  in  Amherst 
County.  Was  a  Captain  in  the  American  Army  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War,  and  served  under  Maj.  Genl  Marquis  de  la 
Fayette.  {See  Hardesty's  Historical  and  Geographical  Ency., 
Va.  Ed.,  pages  409,  411.)^  He  married  Martha  Patteson,  daugh-  • 
ter  of  Jonathan  Patteson,  and  had  issue:  31  John^,  born  May 
25,  1769,  vviio  died  leaving  a  son,  (untraced)  ;  32  Henry  As- 
hury';  33  Samuel  Patteson';  34  Jonathan',  married  Sarah  Xow- 
lin,  and  has  descendants,  (untraced) ;  35  Susan  Bro^^Tie^,  mar- 
ried Wm.  Duval,  and  has  descendants,  (untraced) ;   36  Frances, 

second,  Dr.  Edward  Willcox;  3  William,  of  Edenton,  N.  C,  who  mar- 
ried Harriet  Alexander;  4  Robert,  who  married  Eveline  Harrison; 
no  issue. 

The  issue  of  2  Jane  (Ireland,  nee  Warren.)  by  Dr.  Edward  Willcox 
was:  1  Thomas  W.  Willcox,  of  Charles  City,  (living)  ;  2  Virginia,  mar- 
ried Dr.  Wm.  J.  Upshaw,  and  died  leaving  issue;  and  Edward  Warren, 
Richard,  and  James  R.,  each  of  whom  died  very  young. 

*  20  Patsey  Christian  married  Richard  Singleton,  and  had  issue: 
1  Richard,  never  married;  2  Jane,  who  married,  first,  Hunt  Royall,  and 
left  issue;  second,  Caneliem  Folkes,  of  Charles  City,  and  left  issue  by 
him  also. 

t  25  Frances  Christian  married  Austin  H.  Fergusson,  of  Charles 
City,  and  had  isBue:  1  Dr.  William  Christian,  never  married;  2  Sarah 
Lavinia,  married  Dr.  J3.rooks,  of -Texas;  issue  untraced^. 

$30AlARr  Christian  married  Lyddull  Apperson  ( son  of  John  and  Joyce 
Apperson;  he  was  born  Sept.  27,  17G7),  and  had:  1  John  C.  Apperson, 
who  married  Susan  Travis  Christian,  daughter  of  Robert  Christian  and 
his  wife  Elizabeth  Arnii>te:id(see  54  Roberf*  Christian,  p05^)  ;  2  T^Iartha, 
who  married  Jaequolin  Hoirle  (afterwards  changed  by  Act  of  Assembly 
to  Poindextfr)  ;  3  J\Iatilda,  wiio  married  Richard  Crump.     ' 


126  William  and  ]\Iaky  College  Quartekly. 

never  married;  37  Elizabeth',  married  Philip  Duval,  and  has 
descendants,  (untraced)  ;   38  ^Fartha  Patteson.* 

9  TuEXEK^  CiLRiSTiAX  (57  William^).    Married,  first,  Susan 

AYalker;  second, Fontaine;  third,  Polly  Dancy.    By  his  first 

marriage  he  had  issue:  39  Robert  Walker;  40  Susan  Browne "t; 
41  Catharine.^  Turner  Christian  had  no  issue  ?n'  his  secoud  mar- 

*38  Martha  Patteson  Curistian  was  born  June  15,  179U,  died 
May  18,  1829.  She  married,  May  21,  1818,  Dr.  Reuben  Dejarnett  Pal- 
mer, (son  of  Elias  Palmer,  of  Halifax  Co.,  Va.,  and  Hannah  Le  Grand, 
his  wife,),  who  was  Surgeon  and  Lieut,  in  War  of  1812.  He  died  in 
Appomattox  Co.,  Va.,  Meh.  20,  18G1.  Their  children  were:  1  William 
Henry  (never  married)  ;  2  Samuel  C.  (died  in  infancy)  ;  3  Martha  P. 
Christian  (died  in  infancy)  ;  4  Edward  Alfred;  5  Reuben  J.,  married 
Fannie  Branch,  daughter  of  Professor  Robt.  Guerrant  Branch,  of 
Hampden  Sidney  College,  Va.,  and  had  Robert  and  Edward,  who  died 
without  issue,  and  Cora,  who  married  J.  ]SI.  Blanding,  of  Texas,  and  has 
issue. 

4  Edward  Alfred  Palmer  was  a  Judge  in  Texas,  and  died  at  Hous- 
ton Jany.  15,  1862.  He  married  in  Lynchburg,  in  1S46,  Martha  Wini- 
fred Branch,  daughter  of  Samuel  Branch,  of  Chesterfield  Co.,  Va.  Their 
children  were:  1  William  Henry,  born  Sept.  15,  1847;  living  in  Hous- 
ton, Tex.;  married  and  has  issue;  2  H.  Elizabeth,  born  Mch.  20,  1851: 
married,  first,  Edward  Milby,  of  Tex.;  (no  issue)  :  married,  second, 
Hon.  Josepli  C.  Hutcheson  (a  member  of  the  53  and  54  U.  S.  Con- 
gress) ;  living  in  Houston,  Tex.,  and  has  issue;  3  Rosalie  Heath,  mar- 
ried Sinclair  Taliaferro;  living  in  Houston,  Tex.,  and  has  issue. 

t  40  Susan  Browne  Christian  married  ]Maj.  Thomas  Doswell,  of 
Hanover  Co.,  Va.,  and  had  issue:  1  James  Turner,  (never  married)  ;  2 
Jane  Eliza:  3  Catharine;  4  Thomas  Walker. 

2  Jane  Eliza  Dos-well  married  Wm.  ]\L  Sutton,  and  had  issue:   5 

Charles  W.,  who  married  Jones,  of  Surry  Co..  and  had  one  child; 

6  Mary,  who  married,  first,  James  Bolton   (no  issue),  and  second  

Lyell  (no  issue)  ;  7  Susan  Browne,  who  married  Lewis  D.  Crenshaw, 
of  Riclimond,  and  had  three  children:  Mary,  Susan  Browne,  and  Wini- 
fred. 

3  (Catharine  Doswell  married,  first.  Dr.  Taliaferro,  and  had 

issue:  8  Lewis;  9  Susan.  She  married,  second,  Isaac  Walker,  and  had 
issue;  10  Doswell:  11  Conway;  12  Dudley. 

4  Thomas  Walker  Doswell  (Major),  of  "Bull  Field,"  Hanover 
Co.,  married  Fannie  Sutton,  and  had  issue:  13  Thomas  Bernard,  who 
married  Ellen  Morris,  and  has  issue;  14  Sarah  Jane  (unmarried)  ;  15 
Ella  (unmarried)  ;  10  Norm.a  (unmarried)  ;  17  Letitia  Semple,  who 
married  Allen  Tyler,  and  has  isssue. 

t  41  Catharine  Christian  married  Tyler  Hardiraan,  son  of  Stith 
Hardiman  and  his  wife  Rachel  Tyler,  who  was  an  aunt  of  President 
■Tyler.  She  had  a  son  Lewis  Hardiman,  who  was  killed  in  the  Florida 
War;  and  other  issue,  unknown. 


Christiax  Family.  127 

riage.  By  his  third  wife,  Polly  Dancy,  he  had  issue:  42  William 
Browne'-^;  43  John  Douglas^;  44  Turner^,  junior;  45  Lilly  Ann'*; 
46  Mary^f ;  47  Hennj  Spotswood";  48  Lleivdlyn  ArmistearP;  49 
Benjamin^,  who  was  for  several  years  Deputy  Clerk  of  Charles 
City  Co.  Court;  never  married;  50  George  W.'  (never  married) ; 
51  Edmund  Thomas^;  52  James  Doswcll^;  53  Thaddeus  ^y., mar- 
ried in  Rockbridge  Co.,  Ya.,  and  was  living  there  a  few  years  ago. 
11  Robert^  Christian"  (1  William-,  57  William^).  Born  May 
5,  1760.  Lived  at  "Cedar  Grove/'  Xew  Kent  Co.,  Ya.  Was  a 
Colonel  in  the  Yirginia  ^[ilitia,  and  afterwards  a  member  of 
the  General  Assembly  of  Ya.,  and  candidate  for  Presidential 
Elector  on  the  Federal  Ticket  in  1808.  He  married.  Mary 
Browne,  daughter  of  Wm.  Browne,  of  James  City  Co.,  and  Alice 
Eaton,  his  wife.  His  children  were  four  sons  and  eight  daugh- 
ters, viz. :  54  Robert'*';  55  William  A."^,  a  student  at  Wm.  &  Mary 
in  1813,  never  married;  56  John  Beverley^;  57  Dr.  Oliver*;  oS 
Elizabotht;  59  Alice  Eaton*,  married  Patrick  Hendren,  of  Xew 

*  45  LnxY  AxN^  Christian  married  John  Doswell,  of  Hanover,  and 
had  issue:  1  James  Marshall,  who  married  Ella  Doswell,  and  had  issue, 
(untraced)  ;  2  Benjamin  Turner,  (untraced). 

t  46  !Mary^  Christian  married  Edward  Tomkies,  of  Hanover,  and 
had  issue:  1  Edgar  (issue,  untraced)  ;  2  Gertrude  (never  married)  ;  3 
John  (issue,  untraced)  ;  and  other  issue,  unknown. 

3:58  Elizabeth  Christiax  married  her  cousin,  William  Douglas, 
of  "The  Forge,"  Xew  Kent  Co.,  son  of  William  Douglas  and  Mary  Chris- 
tian {see  under  57  William^,  ante),  and  had  a  number  of  children,  of 
whom  only  three  reached  maturity,  viz. :  1  John  Jerdone  Douglas,  never 
married;  2  William  Robert  Christian  Douglas;  3  Beverley  Broicne 
Douglas. 

2  WiLLiAii  RoBEET  CHRISTIAN  DorGLAS  married,  first,  his  cousin, 
Miss  Hendren,  sister  of  John  B.  Hendren,  who  m.arried  Bettie  Collier 
IDhristian  {see  59  Alice  Eaton*,  supra,  and  under  12  Henry  Benskin^, 
post.),  and  also  sister  of  the  first  wife  of  the  late  Judge  Hallyburton; 
there  was  no  issue  by  this  marriage.  He  married,  second,  Lucy  Ann 
Hankins,  daughter  of  William  Hankins,  of  '"Cherry  Grove,"  in  James 
City  County,  near  Williamsburg,  and  had :  4  Dr.  William  Walter  Doug- 
las (living)  ;  5  Henry  T.  Douglas,  (recently  made  Brigadier  Gen'l,  U.  S. 
Vols.);  6  John  Beverley  Douglas,  Jr.:  7  James  Malcolm  Douglas;  8 
Hobert  Bi-uce  Douglas;  9  Elizabeth  Joan  Douglas;  10  Mary  Douglas; 
11  Lucy  Douglas. 

3  Beverley  Browne  Douglas,  formerly  Congressman  from  the  Ist 
Va.  Disjtrict,  married  Eliza  Dandridge  Pollard,  daughter  of  Robert  Pol- 
lard, of  King  William  Co.,  and  had:  12  Elizabeth  Douglas;  13  Evelyn 
Douglas;  14  Mary  Ellen  Douglas. 


128  William  and  Mary  College  Qcarterly. 

Kent  Co.,  a  distinguished  lawyer,  and  had  John  B.  Hendren ; 
60  Letitia*,  born  Nov.  12,  1790,  died  Sept.  10,  1842,  married 
John  Tyler,  President  of  the  United  States;  61  Anne*,  mar- 
ried, first,  Wm.  Savage,  second,  John  Fleming  Christian;  62 
Mary*,  married  Dr.  Nathaniel  Miller;  63  Susan*,  twin  to  last 
named,  died  unmarried;  64  Janetta*,  married  John  G.  Miller; 
65  Minerva*,  married  Heath  Jones  ^liller. 
(To  he  continued.) 


HISTORICAL  NOTES  AND  QUESTIONS. 
,  EoADs  AXD  Wheeled  Vehicles  (see  pp.  3^*-42). — Among 
other  planters  who  lived  in  style  were  Jolm  Spotswood,  son  of 
Gov.  Alexander  Spotswood,  who  left  wife  and  son  after  his  de- 
cease in  1758  ''Ills  coach  and  six  horses,  coachman  and  postil- 
lions;'' William  Kennon,  of  Charles  City  county,  who  in  ITol 
left  his  wife  ^^niy  chariot  and  six  horses  and  my  breeding  mares 
and  colts;"  Mrs.  Mary  Marshall  Boiling,  of  Bollingbrook,  in  the 
town  of  Petersburg,  who  in  her  will,  dated  1814,  left  to  her 
daughter  Mariana  •'her  chariot  and  chariot  horses;"  Col.  Eich- 
ard  Bland,  son  of  the  antiquary,  who  left  his  widow  !\Iary  "Tiis 
chariot  and  four  horses;"  Alexander  Spotswood,  Esq.,  had  *^one 
of  the  best  made,  handsomest,  and  easiest  chariots  in  London." 
{Campbell's  History  of  Virginia^  p.  407.) 

College  Library. — Major-General  Alexander  Spotswood, 
when  on  the  eve  of  embarking  with  the  troops  destined  for  Carth- 
agenia,  died  at  Annapolis,  on  the  7th  of  June,  1740.  His  will 
was  made  in  the  Brafferton  building  of  the  college,  w^here  the 
Indian  school  was  kept,  and  contains  this  bequest :  ''I  give  to  the 
College  of  William  and  Mary-  in  Virginia  all  my  books,  maps  and 
mathematical  instruments  as  an  acknowledgment  of  the  cour- 
teous reception  I  have  now  met  with  here  in  Brafferton  house, 
and  of  the  civilties  I  have  received  from  the  masters  of  said 
college."  The  will  was  dated  April  19,  1740,  and  was  proved  in' 
Orange  county  September  25,  1740. 

Presbyterians — Chesterfield  county,  December  Court,  1755. 
— "On  the  petition  of  Dudley  Brooke  and  others  of  the  Presby- 
terian denomination,  that  they  intend  to  make  use  of  a  place  of 
public  worship  on  the  land  of  Andrew  Animonet  in  this  county, 
and  praying  that  their  said  petition  be  registered,  ordered  that 


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the  same  be  recorded,  and  thereupon  the  said  Dudley  Brooke, 
William  Lacy,  and  Jacob  Trahue,  subscribers  to  the  said  peti- 
tion, took  the  usual  oaths  to  his  majesty's  person  and  govern- 
ment, took  and  subscribed  the  adjuration  oaths,  and  repeiated  and 
subscribed  the  test." 

Education. — The  will  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Spencer  was  proved 
in  Petersburg  January  6,  1800.  This  lady,  who  belonged  to  the 
Swann  family  of  the  State,  was  an  enthusiast  on  education.  In 
her  will  she  directed  that  no  law}'er  or  doctor  shall  ^Tiave  a 
shilling  of  what  she  left."  She  gave  a  sum  of  money  to  her  great- 
niece,  Sally  A.  Swann,  and  the  latters  daughters,  Eebecca  and 
Louisa  Swann,  "as  long  as  they  lived  within  a  hundred  miles  of 
Petersburg,"  and  on  default,  the  money  was  to  go  to  the  "near- 
est of  kin  on  the  Swann  side."  After  leaving  legacies  to  niece 
Jeannette  C.  Swann  and  brother  Thomas  Swann's  second  daugh- 
ter, Betsy,  the  rest  of  her  estate  she  gave  "to  educate  the  poorest 
of  my  family  Swann."  Her  will  becomes  eloquent  at  this  point : 
"'^^ly  heart  clings  and  cleaves  to  the  poor  white  young.  0  help 
the  young,  push  them  forward ;  pray  do.  A  shilling  to  the  young 
is  far  better  than  a  pound  to  the  old.  How  many  is  in  want  all 
their  lives  for  want  of  a  friend  to  assist  them,  0,  my  friend, 
when  I  am  gone  remember  the  young;  push  them  forward  with 
what  little  I  leave,  and  I  hope  God  Almighty  will  bless  both 
you  and  them  with  his  choicest  blessings,  both  hear  and  hear- 
after."  She  made  her  brothers  John  and  Thomas  Swann  and 
nephew  Thomas  F.  Swann  and  his  brother  John  Swann  execu- 
tors. 

Epes  Coat-of-Arms. — In  will  of  Richard  Epes,  of  Bermuda 
Plundred,  dated  May,  20,  1760,  we  read:  ''I  give  to  my  said  son 
Richard  Henry  Epes  and  his  heirs  my  lot  in  town  of  Gatesville 
and  one  silver  tankard,  one  dozen  silver  spoons,  and  two  silver 
salts,  to  be  purchased  by  my  executors  and  marked  with  the 
Family  arms." 

Scotch  Burial. — Thomas  Hope,  who,  at  his  death  in  1793,  in 
Petersburg,  left  a  brother,  Rol>ert  Hope,  and  two  sisters,  Mary 
and  Jean  Hope,  living  in  Scotland  or  Xorth  Britain,  expressed 
himself  as  follows:  "I  desire  to  have  a  Scotch  burial,  without 
parson's  prayers  or  sermons;  only  give  the  attendants  a  repast, 
and  acquaintance  dirgie  at  my  expense." 


1 

130  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  ] 

School. — Littleton's  school  in  Cumberland  county,"at  presf-nt 
under  the  care  of  one  master,  but  after  October  to  be  under  care 
of  two.  There  is  a  sufficient  number  of  planters  convenient  to 
the  school  to  board  forty  boys."  {Virginia  Gazette,  September, 
1775.) 

Powhatan's  Tree. — When  Powhatan  made  peace  with  the 
English  the  words  of  the  treaty  were  stamped  on  brass,  and,  at 
Opechancanough's  request,  fixed  on  one  of  his  noted  oaks 
(Brown's  First  Republic.)  In  1633  Governor  surrendered  500 
acres  at  Archer's  Hope  for  500  acres  "at  Powhatan  Swamp,  near 
Powhatan's  tree."  This  tree  was  probably  the  tree  on  which  the 
brass  was  hung.  Powhatan  creek  comes  out  of  the  woods  at  the 
west  end  of  Jamestown  Island.  Powhatan's  Tree  was  situated 
near  Greenspring,  the  residence  afterwards  of  Sir  William 
Berkeley,  about  five  miles  from  Jamestown. 

Organ  for  Petsworth  Church,  Gloucester  Co. — April  8, 
1735.  At  this  vestry  there  was  a  great  subscription  by  y^  present 
vestry  for  the  purchase  of  an  organ  for  the  use  of  the  church  at 
Petso.  At  a  meeting,  6th  of  April,  1738,  an  act  was  solicited 
for  the  parish  of  Petsworth  to  pay  their  organist  by  a  poll-tax. 
Anthony  Collins  was  first  organist. 

Oldest  Plate  in  America. — On  page  285  of  his  interesting 
work,  The  First  Republic  in  America,  Mr.  Brown  describes  some 
plate,  which,  if  preserved,  is  not  only  the  oldest  in  Virginia,  but 
in  the  United  States.  He  says  he  is  ignorant  of  its  whereabouts. 
This  information  can  now  be  supplied.  Both  pieces  are  in  the 
custody  of  Eev.  Braxton  Bry'an,  rector  of  the  Episcopal  church 
at  Hampton.  Mrs.  Eobinson's  gift,  a  large  cup,  inscribed  *"The 
communion  cupp  for  St.  Mary's  church  in  Smith's  Hundred,  in 
Virginia,"  bears  the  Hall  mark  1617. 

Carr. — The  following,  in  addition  to  what  appears  on  page 
106,  is  also  kindly  furnished  by  Col.  Csltj:  Deed-Book  (17-}:2-'53), 
folio  364,  of  Louisa  county  records,  contains  an  indenture,  dated 
1749,  November  12,  between  "John  Carr,  John  Waller,  Jr.,  and 
Agnes  his  wife,  John  Minor  and  Sarah  his  wife  surviving  exe- 
cutors of  the  last  will  and  testament  of  Thomas  Carr,  late  of  the 
county  of  Caroline,  gent.,  deceased,  and  Wm.  Waller,  of  the 
county  of  Spotsylvania,  gent.,"  reciting  that  the  said  Thomas 
Carr  on  the  29th  day  of  May,  1735,  made  his  last  will  and  testa- 


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ment,  and  therein  among  other  things  is  contained  this  clause, 
viz.,  .  .  "executors  and  executrixes  hereafter  named'^  to  sell 
certain  lands,  produce  ^"to  be  equally  divided  between  my  beloved 
wife  and  children/'  and  also  reciting  a  codicil  of  Gth  May,  1738 ; 
and  continues  to  say,  "and  of  his  said  will  appoints  his  beloved 
wife  and  his  children,  Thomas,  John,  Agnes  and  Sarah,  joint 
executors  and  executrixes,  as  in  and  by  the  second  will  duly 
proved  in  the  County  Court  of  Caroline,  and  there  remaining  of 
record,  may  more  fully  appear.  That  soon  after  making  the 
said  will  and  codicil  the  said  Thomas  Carr  died  seized  of  the  land 
and  premises  aforesaid,  and  the  said  executors  took  upon  them- 
selves the  burden  of  the  execution  of  the  said  will,  the  said 
Agnes  being  then  married  to  John  Waller,  Jr.,  and  the  said 
Sarah  being  then  married  to  John  Minor,  parties  to  these  pres- 
ents, since  which  the  said  testator's  widow  and  son  Thomas, 
two  of  the  executors  in  the  said  will  named,  have  departed 
this  life/'  etc.,  etc. 

In  the  same  deed-book,  under  date  of  February  25,  1750,  is 
an  indenture  between  John  Minor,  of  the  county  of  Spotsylvania, 
gent.,  and  John  Carr,  of  the  county  of  Louisa,  gent.,  which  re- 
cites a  clause  from  the  said  Thomas  Carr's  will,  "duly  proved  in 
the  county  of  Caroline  at  a  court  held  for  said  county  on  the 
14th  day  of  July,  1738."  "Item  I  give  unto  my  said  son  Thomas 
Carr  the  half  of  my  James  river  lands  in  Hanover  and  Gooch- 
land county,  etc.,  .  .  but  if  it  please  God  he  should  die  before 
he  marries,  or  afterwards,  without  child  or  children,  then  and  in 
that  case  only  I  give  and  bequeath  the  said  land  to  my  son 
John  and  his  heirs  forever,  with  residue  to  Agnes  and  Sarah/' 
and  so  on  other  lands  with  cross  remainders  between  his  said 
several  children,  etc.,  etc.,  and  continues,  "After  whose  death 
Thomas  Carr,  eldest  son  and  heir  to  the  said  testator,  made  his 
last  will  and  testament,  bearing  date  the  5th  day  of  July,  1743, 
and  in  a  short  time  afterwards  died,  and  by  a  clause  therein  con- 
tained the  said  John  Minor  (party  hereto)  laid  claim  to  3,441 
acres  as  devised  to  him  by  said  Thomas,  Jr.,''  etc.,  etc.  Thomas 
Carr,  the  elder,  died  May  29,  1737,  and  his  wife  Mary  Septem- 
ber 7,  1748  [Carr  Bible].  Thomas  Carr,  Jr.,  was  married  in 
1735,  and  his  will  of  1743  indicates  that  he  died  single.  Capt. 
Wm.  Carr,  of  Spotsylvania,  as  his  will  and  deed  show,  had  evi- 
dently married  twice.     He  makes  deed  of  gift  to  his  son-iu-law 


132  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

William  Crenshaw,  of  Louisa,  and  my  daughter  Susanna  in 
1751.  In  1752  he  makes  a  deed  of  gift  to  his  son-in-law  Mor- 
decai  lEonl  and  Sarah,  my  beloved  daughter.  In  1755  he  makes 
a  deed  of  gift  to  Ms  son-in-law  Nichola.s  Crenshaw  and  ^lary, 
my  beloved  daughter,  being  part  of  a  patent  for  4,044  acres  to 
said  William  Carr  29th  June,  1739. 

The  order  book  of  Caroline  county  under  date  of  July  14, 
1738,  recites :  ^'The  last  will  and  testament  and  codicil  of  Thomas 
Carr,  gent.,  deceased,  was  presented  in  court  by  Mary-  Carr, 
John  Carr,  x\gnes  Waller  and  Sarah  Minor,  executors  and  exe- 
cutrixes therein  named,  who  made  oaths  thereto  according  to  law. 
Being  proved  by  y®  oaths  of  John  Waller  and  Thomas  Eobinson, 
and  also  by  y®  affirmation  of  Charles  Goodall,  witnesses  thereto, 
it  is  admitted  to  record."  Charles  Goodall,  John  Scott,  John 
Wyall  and  James  Terry-  appointed  appraisers. 

In  the  commission  of  1740  Wm.  Carr  first  appears  as  justice. 
In  1742  there  is  a  deed  from  Thomas  Carr  to  William  Carr, 
gent.,  proved;  and  by  same  witnesses  on  same  day  a  bond  from 
Mary  Carr  to  Wm.  Carr,  gent.,  is  proved.  William  Carr  ap- 
pears as  constable  in  1733. 

William  Carr  and  Joseph  Martin  in  1733  prove  a  power 
of  attorney  from  Mary  Carr  to  consent  to  a  Deed  of  L.  and  K. 
from  Thos.  Carr,  gent. 

Allen. — Page  110.  Major  Arthur  Allen  mentions  in  his 
will  (1710)  two  sisters,  Joan. Proctor  and  Elizabeth  Jackman.  . 
It  is  certain  that  his  sister  Elizabeth  Jackman  (wife  of  Joseph 
John  Jackman)  had  previously  married  Capt.  Eobert  Caufield. 
She  did  not  marry  Col.  William  Bridger,  as  stated  in  Vol.  YIL, 
p.  311.  Her  niece  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Major  Allen,  mar- 
ried Bridger.  In  Surry  records  there  is  a  deed  from  William 
Allen,  of  Charles  City  county,  and  ^lary,  his  wife,  convening 
200  acres  to  John  Allen,  of  Surr}%  patented  by  William  Hunt 
in  1701,  and  bequeathed  by  his  will  dated  May,  1714,  to  his 
daughter  the  aforesaid  Mary'.  Who  was  this  William  Allen,  of 
Charles  City?  There  is  a  communion  ser\'ice  at  St.  Andrew's 
church,  Suriy  county,  Ya.,  with  the  inscription :  ^'Donum  Johan- 
nis  Allen  de  Surry  militis.'^  In  his  will  he  mentions  several 
church  services  to  be  given.  On  tomb  of  Elizabeth  Allen  at 
Claremont  are  cut  the  arms  of  Allen  impaling  Basset.  Per  chev 
gu.  and  crm.  in  chief  two  lion's  heads  erased,  or  for  xlllen,  and  or 


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three  bars  ivavy  gu.  for  Basset.  Crest :  A  horse's  head  erased.  The 
will  of  Henry  Thacker,  proved  in  Middlesex  county  on  ^larch 
4,  17()G,  make&  a  devise  to  "John  Allen,  son  of  Mr.  William 
Allen,  and  Clara,  his  wife,  of  Surry  county."  This  last  was 
Clara  Walker,  who  was  left  by  John  Walker,  her  father,  to  Capt. 
Henry  Thacker's  care.  (See  Walkers  will,  proved  May  17, 
1745.)  She  was  daughter  of  John  Walker  and  Catherine  Yates, 
and  was  bom  September  7,  1737.  John  Walker  was  son  of 
James  Walker  and  Clara  Robinson  (daughter  of  Col.  Christopher 
Eobinson  and  his  second  wife,  Catherine,  widow  of  Robert  Bev- 
erley). The  will  of  Richard  Walker,  of  Urbanna,  Middlesex 
■county,  proved  April  4,  1727,  names  his  nephews  and  nieces, 
James,  Anne,  Catherine,  John  (eldest),  children  of  his  brother 
James,  and  his  brothers  John,  Thomas  and  Edward  Walker,  liv- 
ing then  at  Ashboum,  in  Derbyshire.  They  are  said  to  have  been 
sons  of  James  Walker,  of  Ashbourn,  Derbyshire. 

Armistead. — In  7th  Grattan's  Reports  (p.  53)  it  is  stated 
that  Gen.  Joseph  Martin  located  5,000  acres  in  Alabama  or 
Misissippi.  One  of  his  heirs  was  Sarah,  who  married  Samuel 
Armistead,  of  Campbell  county,  Virginia.  In  the  records  of 
Petersburg  is  the  will  of  Robert  Armistead,  proved  December 
27,  1802.  It  names  wife  Margaret,  daughter  Euphan,  daughter 
Polly,  son  Harry.  Appoints  John  Grammer,  clerk  of  the  court, 
John  ^\"ilder  and  William  Prentis  executors.  Witnesses  :  W}i:han 
Dyer,  E.  Worsham,  M.  Moss,  Mary  Taylor,  Chartes  Beckley. 
This  Robert  Armistejid  appears  to  have  been  the  ^'Robert 
Armistead,  of  Dinwiddle  county,  carpenter,^'  mentioned  on 
page  C7.  He  was  undoubtedly  125  Robert  Armistead,  of  Eliza- 
l)eth  City  county,  son  of  Col.  Robert  Armistead  and  Ann  Wal- ' 
lace,  his  vrife.  (YII.  p.  233.)  It  will  be  observed  that  the  name 
^T.uphan,"  given  to  one  of  the  daughters  of  Robert  Amistead, 
of  Petersburg,  was  a  family  name  ainong  the  Wallaces  of  Eliza- 
beth City  county.  In  the  records  of  Prince  George  county  is  the 
will  of  Margaret  Armistead,  wife  of  Thomas  Armistead,  proved 
January  10,  1792,  but  dated  August  19,  1777.  It  names  daugh- 
ter Anna  Currie  Armistead,  and  leaves  property  in  Halifax 
>county  to  "such  other  children  as  I  may  have,'*'  and  makes  my 
present  husband  guardian  to  my  son  John  Fawn.  Witness, 
John  Thweatt.  The  will  of  Theodorick  Armistead  at  Xorfolk, 
And  other  evidence  there  which  mentions   Fawn,  would  seem 


134  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

to  indicate  that  tliis  Thomas  Armistead  was  father  of  Theodo- 
rick.     (See  Vol.  YII.,  p.  183.) 

Queries  PiEgardixg  Bayard,  Mills,  Gardner,  etc. — Does 
any  one  know  anything  of  the  origin  of  the  Bayard  coat-of- 
arms :  "Azure,  a  chevron  or,  bet.  3  escalops  of  the  last.^^  Crest — 
A  denii-hom.     Motto,  "Honoet  Justitia"? 

Are  any  old  Bayard  seals  in  existence?  How  early  was  this 
coat-of-arms  used?  While  this  is  the  coat-of-arms  of  most  of 
the  American  Bayards,  other  devices  are  used  by  some  branches 
of  the  family,  and  it  is  desired  to  learn  which  is  the  earliest. 

According  to  Rietstaff,  the  above  arms  belong  to  the  Bayards 
of  Picardie,  France. 

Any  information  will  be  gratefully  received  about  the  parents 
or  grandparents  (with  dates)  of  William  Wills,  bom  about  ITSO 
in  Virginia,  died  September  13,  1848,  in  Mississippi.  He  mar- 
ried October  20,  1808,  Elizabeth  Gardiner,  of  Hanover,  Ya, 
She  died  September  3,  1819.  (Who  were  her  parents?)  Wil- 
liam Mills  moved  to  Mississippi  in  the  thirties.  He  had  a  son,. 
William  Mills,  born  in  Virginia,  died  Wilton  Plantation,  Miss._^ 
October  8,  1853. 

Col.  Ambrose  Mills  (probably  of  another  family),  born  1T23 
in  England,  killed  1780,  October  1,  after  battle  of  Ejng's  Moun- 
tain. He  married,  first,  Mourninl  Stone,  of  Maryland.  Slie 
was  killed  by  Indians  on  frontier  of  South  Carolina.  He  mar- 
ried, second,  Ann  Brown,  daughter  of  Col,  Brown,  of  Chester, 
S.  C.  Col.  Ambrose  Mills,  of  the  English  Army,  came  to  Mary- 
land with  his  father,  lived  a  vrhile  on  the  James  river,  Va.,  and 
moved  to  an  estate  forty  miles  long  on  the  Wateree  river,  near 
Camden,  S.  C.  His  son,  William  Mills,  married  Eleanor  Morris^ 
of  Williamsburg,  Va.,  about  1765.  Who  was  Col.  Mills'  father? 
Who  were  the  parents  of  Mourning  Stone  and  Eleanor  Morris? 
— Philip  Schuyler  de  Luze,  63  William  street,  Xew  York. 

Query  Regarding  Morris-Piialby. — "I  am  endeavoring  ta 
learn  something  about  a  family  who  in  ante-revolutionary  days 
lived  within  sight  of  the  court-house  in  Williamsburg  by  the 
name  of  Morris.  My  great-great-great-grandfather,  Wm.  Mor- 
ris, and  his  brother  Robert  came  from  Liverpool,  Eng.,  to  Penn- 
sylvania. William  moved  to  Williamsburg.  *  His  wife  was- 
Esther  Phalby.  Their  daughter,  Eleanor  Morris,  married  Wm. 
Mills,  and  moved  to  Xorth  Carolina.    Her  brothers,  Robert  and 


Historical  Notes  and  Questions.  13.> 

Patrick  Morris,  were  soldiers  in  the  colonial  ranks.  It  is  of 
these  two  brothers  that  I  am  most  desirous  of  being  informed. 
I  have  nothing  but  family  tradition.  Have  you  ever  heard  of  the 
name  of  Phalby  in  Virginia?" — Mrs.  M.  C.  Tonry,  Baird,  Miss. 

Seawell  Family. —  (Page  54.)  "Referring  to  Seawell  family, 
I  think  it  highly  probable  that  Sarah  Seawell,  born  in  1746,  and 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  p]lizabeth,  was  the  mother  of  my  grand- 
father, Thomas  Seawell  King.  Dr.  John  King,  who  had  it 
seems  been  a  student  at  Oxford,  and  subsequently  a  student  at 
a  Medical  school  in  London,  came  under  the  influence  of  Wesley, 
was  discarded  in  consequence  by  the  family;  came  to  America 
about  1765  or  1769;  preached  through  the  heroic  days  of 
Methodism,  and  finally  settled  down  as  a  practitioner  of  medi- 
cine in  North  Carolina;  married  Miss  Sarah  Seawell,  of  Bruns- 
wick county  Ya.,  in  1774.  She  subsequently,  after  his  death  in 
1794,  marrying  a  Mr.  Perry.  A  sister  of  this  Sarah  Seawell 
married  Green  Hill,  w^ho  was  treasurer  of  the  State  of  Xorth 
Carolina  during  the  war  of  the  Revolution.  It  appears  that 
Joseph  Seawell  made  a  will  (his  wife  Elizabeth  making  refer- 
ence to  it  in  her  will,  which  you  give  in  the  July  number),  and 
his  will  would  in  all  probability  give  the  names  of  his  children. 
Can  the  will  be  found?" — Thomas  S.  Weaver,  Clerh  and  Master 
of  the  Chancery  Court,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

As  the  records  of  Gloucester  county  are  destroyed  no  as- 
sistance can  be  had  in  that  direction;  but  the  deeds  and  wills- 
preserved  in  ^orth  Carolina  and  other  counties  in  Virginia  may 
some  day  afford  an  answer. — Editor. 

Queries  Regarding  Williams^  Henderson. — Who  were  the 
parents  of  Capt.  John  Williams  (test,  1797),  of  Halifax  county, 
Va.  ?  He  married  Diana  Coleman,  sister  of  Henry  E.  Coleman^^ 
of  Halifax,  who  was  witness  to  his  sister's  will  September  27,. 
1813.    Who  were  Diana's  parents? 

Daniel  Henderson,  a  Revolutionary  soldier  from  ^orth  Car- 
olina, whom  tradition  says  fell  at  King's  Mountain,  married  a 
Richardson.  His  son  John  married  Catharine  Roberts,  whose 
parents  moved  from  Cannonsburg,  Pa.,  and  settled  in  North  Car- 
olina.   Who  were  their  ancestors  ?    Who  were  their  descendants  ? 

Irwin. — Ensign  John  Irwin  moved  to  Augusta  county,  Va.,. 
1784.  His  daughter  Margaret  married  Thomas  Sullivan.  What 
of  their  antecedents  ? — M.  R.  C. 


BOOK  REVIEWS 


WoRD-BooK  OF  ViRGiiviA  FoLK-SPtECii.  By  Dr.  B.  ir.  Green.  Richmond, 
Virginia.  Published  by  William  Ellis  Jones.  1899. 
The  editor  has  not  had  the  time  to  give  this  work  the  attention 
which  it  deserves.  Dr.  Green  is  to  be  congratulated  as  being  the  first 
serious  pioneer  in  a  region  of  study  which  holds  out  great  results. 
The  subject  makes  the  strongest  appeal  to  scholarly  tastes,  and  Dr. 
Green  will  deservedly  rank  high  with  the  future  scholars  of  Virginia 
as  being  the  first  to  give  the  real  impetus  to  the  study.  I  take  it  that 
the  Doctor  in  representing  the  "Folk-Speech"  of  Virginia  proposes  to 
represent  it  as  it  was  spoken  in  the  past,  rather  than  as  it  is  spoken 
now.  The  pronunciation  of  Virginia  names  given  by  Dr.  Green  must 
refer,  of  course,  to  the  period  antecedent  to  the  Revolution,  for  only 
then  can  it  be  said  that  the  names  were  generally  called  as  he  gives 
them.  Perhaps  some  of  the  words  given  by  him  were  either  local  or 
the  jargon  of  illiterate  negroes,  and  obtained  no  real  admission  into 
the  language  of  the  people.  On  the  other  hand,  many  words  that  sound 
clownish  enough  to  us  at  this  time  were  excellent  English  a  hundred 
years  ago;  and  are  properly  included  in  Dr.  Green's  catalogue.  But  all 
tills  shows  the  great  possibilities  of  the  study,  and  diminishes  to  no 
real  extent  the  obligations  we  are  under  to  Dr.  Green  for  his  toilsome 
and  patriotic  work. 

Some  Kotable  Families  of  America.  By  Anna  Robinson  Watson, 
'  New  York.  1898. 
Under  this  title  the  author  summarizes  the  ancestry  of  her  immediate 
family.  The  grouping  together  of  ancestral  lines,  ending  in  one  family 
of  children  and  printed  for  present  use,  is  itself  a  commendable  plan. 
Mrs.  Watson  has  for  many  years  been  a  successful  writer  of  magazine 
articles,  an  ardent  student  of  Folk-love,  belonging  to  the  Folk-Love 
Club,  and  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  Nineteenth  Century  Club 
of  Memphis,  Tennessee.  The  families  which  pass  under  notice  are 
nearly  all  of  Virginia  origin,  and  bear  the  well-known  names  of  Taylor, 
Allerton,  Willoughby,  Brewster,  Thompson,  Madison,  Lee,  Strother, 
Warner,  Reade,  Lewis,  Meriwether,  Walker,  ^laury,  Thornton  and 
Hornsby.  The  book  is  printed  on  beautiful  paper,  and  tastefully  illus- 
trated by  Miss  Bessie  C.  Grinnan,  daughter  of  Dr.  Andrew  G.  Grinnan, 
of  Madison  county,  Virginia. 

Washixgtox  axd  the  Theatre.     By  Paul  Leicester  Ford.    New  York. 
The  Dunlap  Society. 
Mr.  Ford  is  one  of  the  few  writers  that  has  excelled  both  as  a  novelist 
and  historian.    The  two  characters  seem  to  require  ditferent  elements  of 


f 


Book  Eeviews.  13T 

mind,  for  the  free  use  which  the  novelist  generally  makes  of  the  imagi- 
nation is  repugnant  to  the  exactness  necessary  in  hi.itorical  research. 
Nevertheless,  Mr.  Pord  l)as  attained  eminence  as  the  author  of  the 
Hon.  Peter  Sterling,  which  in  no  wise  interferes  with  the  credit  due  to 
him  as  the  discriminating  editor  of  Jefferson's  Works  and  the  author 
of  other  historical  productions.  In  tlie  work  under  review  Mr.  Ford 
presents  Washington  in  the  aspect  of  a  Virginia  theatre-goer.  This 
involves  a  comparatively  extended  account  of  the  theatre  iu  Virginia  ^ 
and  America,  and  Mr.  Ford  presents  many  unfamiliar  facts  hitherto 
buried  in  the  files  of  old  newspapers.  I  cannot  agree,  however,  in  award- 
ing to  Xew  York  and  Charleston  the  priority  of  claim  in  the  first 
patronage  of  the  mimic  art.  Mr.  Ford  seems  to  forget  tliat  fifty  years 
before  the  date  (1702)  given  by  him  the  exciting  play  of  "The  Bear 
and  the  Cub"  had  been  played  in  Accomac  (Campbells  History  of  Vir- 
ginia.) And  though  this  clearly  gives  the  prior  right  to  Virginia,  it  is 
not  to  be  supposed  that  there  were  not  frequent  plays  at  Jamestown 
under  the  rul6  of  Sir  William  Berkeley,  himself  a  play-writer  and  a 
frequenter  of  the  theatre.  Nor  is  it  "presimiable"  that  the  play 
acted  before  the  governor  in  17 IS  was  played  by  the  boys  at  the  College 
of  William  and  Mary.  The  presumption  is  in  another  direction  when 
all  the  facts  are  considered.  There  is  on  record  in  York  county  a  con- 
tract dated  1716  between  William  Levingston,  merchant,  and  Charles 
Stagg  and  ^Mary,  his  wife,  actors,  by  which  they  agreed  to  build  a 
theatre  in  Williamsburg,  and  to  provide  actors,  scenery  and  music  out 
of  England  for  the  enacting  of  comedies  and  tragedies  in  the  said  city. 
On  November  21,  1710,  William  Levingston  purchased  lots  103,  104  and 
169  from  the  town  trustees,  to  which  were  added  lots  176  and  177.  On 
the  first  three  he  built  his  theatre,  dwelling-house,  stable  and  kitchen, 
and  in  the  area  around  laid  out  his  bowling  green  of  "an  acre  and 
a  half,"  and  ''his  garden"  of  same  dimensions.  On  May  20,  1721,  he 
mortgaged  this  property  to  Archibald  Blair,  gent.,  for  500  years:  but 
Levingston  defaulting  in  tlie  pajanent,  Blair  brought  an  ejectment  suit, 
and  was  on  December  16,  1723,  granted  a  writ  of  possession.  As,  how- 
ever, Charles  Stagg  continued  in  Williamsburg  till  his  death  in  1735, 
when  his  inventory  was  recorded  in  York  Court,  the  presumption  is 
that  he  continued  his  plays  at  the  play-house.  There  is  the  mention  of 
a  deed  coated  February  20,  1735,  by  which  John  Blair,  executor  of  Archi- 
bald Blair,  conveyed  the  property  to  Dr.  George  Gilmer  for  £155,  and 
the  latter  sometime  after,  for  £50,  sold  the  play-house  and  six  feet  all 
around  to  a  stock  company  consisting  of  thirty-one  of  the  first  men  of 
the  colony.  It  would  seem  as  if  something  more  was  intended  than 
plays  by  college  boys,  but  we  are  bare  of  newspapers  after  1738  for 
muuy  years.  Certain  it  is  that  in  1745  the  theatre  "had  not  been  put 
■*^'u)  any  use  for  several  years:"  and  in  that  year,  on  the  humble  suppli- 
cation of  the  city  authorities,  the  theatre  was  surrendered  by  the 
company  of  shareholders  to  the  corporation  of  Williamsbui'g  for  a 
Town  Hall.  In  September,  1751,  Benjamin  Waller  sold  to  Alexander 
Finnie  two  lots  on  the  east  side  of  Kjist  street  (eastern  boundarv)   near 


138  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

the  Capitol,  and  on  these  lots  the  company  of  comedians  from  Xew  York 
constructed  "Tlie  New  Tiieatre,"  a  wooden  building,  which  Lewis  Plal- 
1am  and  his  company  repaired  and  improved  the  following  year.  The 
city,  after  the  construction  of  the  present  court-house  in  1709,  sold  the 
old  theatre  lots  in  1770  to  John  Tazewell,  Esq.,  from  whom  they  came  to 
Judge  St.  George  Tucker,  and  they  are  now  owned  by  his  granddaughter, 
3Irs.  Cynthia  Tucker  Coleman.  The  old  theatre,  the  first  building  of 
its  kind  in  the  United  States,  stood  on  the  northeast  corner  of  Nichol- 
son street  and  the  Palace  Green.  In  excavating  there  a  year  ago  its 
foundations  were  clearly  exposed  to  view. 

XiETTERS  OF  Washixgtox  AND  AccoMPAXYiNG  PAPERS.    Published  by  the 
Society  of  Colonial  Dames  of  America.     Edited  by  Stanislaus  Mur- 
ray Hamilton.    Vol.  I.,  1752-'56.    Boston  and  New  York:  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.     1S98. 
"This  work  is  dedicated  to  the  historians  of  the  country,  and  to  all 
true  patriots  who  sympathize  with  reverently  preserving  every  record 
touching  upon  the  life  of  the  Father  of  the  Country."     Certainly  the 
historian  and  the  patriot  have  every  reason  to  be  thankful  for  this  fine 
volume.     It  is  one  in  regard  to  which  the  critic  should  have  no  words 
but  praise.    It  is  quite  as  interesting  as  a  volume  of  Washington's  own 
correspondence;  for  here  we  have  the  best  minds  of  the  country  in  com- 
munion with  him.     We  have  variety,  too,  and  variety  is  the  spice  of 
reading  as  well  as  of  life.     The  ladies  are  doing  a  great  work  in  his- 
tory, and  the  next  volume  will  be  impatiently  awaited  by  the  reading 
public. 

The  Story  of  the  Civil  War.     A  concise  account  of  the  war  in  the 
United  States  of  America  between  18G1  and  1865.     By  John  Cod- 
man  Ropes,  LL.D,    G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  New  York  and  London. 
1898.    Part  IL    The  Campaign  of  1SC2. 
This  is  the  second  part  of  an  exceedingly  valuable  work  which  is  to 
be  issued  in  four  parts.    It  is  told  in  a  style  of  judicial  seriousness,  and, 
despite  its  origin  in  the  North,  manifests  the  most  conscientious  desire 
to  treat  the  South  fairly.    It  may  not  do  this  in  all  cases,  but  it  is  to 
Mr.  Hopes'  credit  that  no  man  will  lightly  contradict  his  statements, 
which  bears  upon  their  face  the  appearance  of  most  careful  considera- 
tion.    This  second  part  begins  with  the  story  of  the  capture  of  Fort 
Donelson  and  the  battle  of  Shiloh,   and  concludes  with  the  battle  of 
Fredericksburg.     The   narrative    is   finely   sustained,   and   the   splendid 
grouping  of  events  shows  a  masterly  grasp  of  details  on  the  part  of  the' 
author.     One  rises  from  the  perusal  with  a  higher  notion,  if  possible, 
of  the  bravery  in  battle  of  the  Nortliern  and  Southern  soldiers. 

Probably  the  most  notable  thing  about  the  book  is  the  freedom  ta^r>, " 
by  Mr.  Ropes  with  the  character  of  Mr.  Lincoln.  The  fortunate  issue 
for  the  North  of  the  great  struggle  and  his  martyrdom  by  Booth  have 
invested  Mr.  Lincoln  in  the  eyes  of  most  Northern  writers  with  a  fic- 
titious infalibility  which  any  serious  study  of  the  facts  renders  down- 


Book  Keviews.  139 

right  ridiculous.  His  civil  administration  has  many  blunders,  and 
Mr.  Ropes  is  one  of  the  strongest  witnesses  against  his  military  course. 
Compare  Mr.  Davis  with  Mr.  Lincoln  in  this  respect.  Although  the 
former  has  been  sometimes  blamed  for  unduly  interfering  with  his 
ofllcers,  it  is  a  fact  that  he  rarely  did  so  except  on  the  advice  of  com- 
petent military  authority,  leaving  otherwise  the  whole  direction  to  the 
officers  in  the  field.  But  Mr.  Lincoln  habitually  interfered.  Though, 
AS  Mr.  Ropes  says,  he  was  "utterly  without  any  intelligent  grasp  of 
the  fundamental  principles  by  which  the  conduct  of  all  military  opera- 
tions should  be  regulated/'  he  reserved  to  himself  and  his  secretary  "the 
conduct  of  all  military  operations."  In  the  critical  conditions  of  the 
war  in  1862,  when  the  Confederate  government  was  threatened  with  the 
great  armies  of  McClellan  before  Richmond  and  of  McDowell  in  the 
neighborhood  of  Fredericksburg,  the  capture  of  Richmond  was  probably 
alone  prevented  by  the  extraordinary  folly  of  Lincoln  in  dividing  the 
theatre  of  war  into  numerous  independent  districts,  making  the  Federal 
operations  discordant  and  disconnected.  On  the  other  hand,  through 
the  superior  wisdom  of  Mr.  Davis,  unity  of  action  was  preserved  in  the 
Confederate  armies.  And  so  Jackson  covered  himself  with  glory  in  de- 
feating the  Federal  forces' in  the  Valley,  Lee  beat  McClellan's  army 
back  to  the  James  river,  and  the  war  by  this  means  was  rendered  possible 
for  three  more  years.  Xor  was  this  the  only  mistake  made  b\-  !Mr. 
Lincoln  in  the  course  of  a  single  year.  The  Confederate  authorities 
bent  all  their  energies,  after  the  close  of  these  operations,  to  recruiting 
the  strength  of  their  wasted  battalions,  taking  care  to  preserving  their 
integrity  of  the  old  regiments  which  had  acquired  military  discipline 
and  thorough  knowledge  of  warfare.  But  Lincoln,  with  extraordinary 
fatuity,  thought  only  of  raising  new  establishments,  allowing  the  old 
veteran  organizations  to  dwindle  and  waste  away  for  want  of  recruits. 
Later  on  in  the  year  he  showed  again  his  entire  lack  of  military  know- 
ledge by  removing  from  the  command  the  general  who,  of  all  others, 
liad  deserved  the  confidence  of  the  government  and  putting  Burnside 
in  his  place;  a  man  whom  "no  one  in  or  out  of  service  had  ever  consid- 
ered as  able  a  man  as  McClellan.*'  Xot  infrequently  President  Lincoln 
and  his  immediate  mouth-pieces  employed  language  to  their  generals 
which  conveyed  absolute  threats  of  removal — a  language  which  Mr. 
Davis  never  indulged  in  to  his  subordinates.  To  such  an  intimation 
coming  from  the  truculent  General  Halleck.  who  professed  to  speak 
for  President  Lincoln,  General  Roseeraus  replied  during  this  time  in 
words  becoming  the  Roman  Brutus,  "To  threats  of  removal  or  the  like 
I  must  be  permitted  to  say  that  I  am  insensible."  'Mr.  Ropes  thoroughly 
endorses  the  noble  reply  of  Rosecrans,  and  has  no  sympathy  v.-ith  the 
domineering  spirit  that  evoked  it.  Perhaps  ]Mr.  Ropes  underestimates 
the  extent  of  the  demoralization  of  the  Federal  army  under  McClellan 
after  its  retreat  from  the  Chickahominy  to  Harrison's  landing.  He 
treats  it  rather  as  a  change  of  base  than  as  a  retreat  before  the  victo- 
rious attacking  force.  The  truth  is  that  it  was  much  of  both.  Per- 
liaps,  as  Mr.  Ropes  says,  McClellan's  army  did  not  m.arch  as  fast  to 


140  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

the  James  as  it  would  have  done  had  it  been  left  alone.  But  it  can 
scarce  be  doubted  that  the  marching  away  of  the  Federal  army  after 
each  successive  engugenient  \\iLh  the  Confederates  was  accompanied  by 
a  continuous  reduction  of  morale.  It  was  perhaps  a  lucky  thing  that 
Malvern  Hills  afforded  them  such  a  strong  position,  else  who  knows 
what  would  have  been  the  result  of  the  last  Confederate  attack?  That 
.McClellan,  the  commander  of  this  army,  should  after  the  battles  have 
thought  the  Confederate  forces  to  be  "200,000  instead  of  80,000,"  as 
they  really  were,  is  strong  evidence  of  extensive  demoralization,  not 
only  on  his  part,  but  on  the  part  of  the  army  which  he  commanded. 

Of  General  Lee  Mr.  Ropes  speaks  in  terms  of  high  regard.  He  has 
his  faults  like  others,  it  is  true.  He  was  sometimes  disposed  to  under- 
estimate his  enemy,  and  to  make  hazardous  movements  which  at  times 
brought  his  whole  command  into  imminent  peril.  But  in  every  battle 
Mr.  Ropes  says  that  his  managements  of  his  troops  was  superb.  On 
page  2.53  Mr.  Ropes  calls  him  "the  most  accomplished  soldier  of  the 
day.-'  On  page  370  he  says  that  the  conduct  of  Lee  at  the  battle  of 
Antietam  was  "a  contrast"  to  McClellan's  in  "vigor,  skill  and  enter- 
prise," as  especially  shown  in  the  employment  of  his  available  troops. 
On  page  352  he  says  that  had  the  array  of  McClellan  at  Antietam,  with 
its  75,000  or  80.000  men,  been  commanded  "by  a  Lee,  with  a  Jackson  in 
charge  of  one  wing  and  a  Longstreet  in  charge  of  the  other,  there  would 
have  been  chance  for  the  escape  of  the  army  of  Xorthern  Virginia." 
All  this  is  highly  creditable  to  .^Ir.  Ropes,  since  he  writes  from  the  stand- 
point of  the  victors,  and  it  is  a  common  thing  for  the  victors  to  magnify 
their  own  achievements  and  to  detract  from  the  exploits  of  their  ad- 
versaries. During  the  siege  of  Richmond  by  Grant  the  words  of  Bren- 
nu3  were  often  written  by  the  spies  from  the  Federal  army,  who  entered 
at  night,  upon  the  walls  of  the  sleeping  city,  Vae  Victis! 

A  History  of  the  American  Nation.  By  Andrew  C.  McLaughlin,  pro- 
fessor of  American  History  in  the  University  of  Michigan.  New 
York:  D.  Appleton  &  Co.    1899. 

The  v.-ork  proceeds  along  the  old  lines  of  consolidation  and  anti-South, 
80  popular  among  Northern  extremists.  ^Ir.  McLaughlin  writes  like  a 
well-informed  partisan,  but  he  is  after  all  a  partisan.  He  does  not  give 
history  as  it  is,  but  as  he  wishes  it  to  be.  It  is  true  that  the  nation  is 
no  longer  in  danger,  and  the  truth  may  at  length  be  told.  But  Mr. 
McLaughlin  writes  as  if  he  did  not  think  it  was  prudent  to  tell  the 
whole  truth.  There  is  no  danger  of  negro  slavery;  but  he  suppresses 
facts,  just  as  if  he  feared  really  that  Bob  Toombs  might  rise  from  the 
grave  and  call  the  roll  of  his  slaves  in  the  classic  shades  of  the  L'niver- 
sity  of  Michigan.  Now  Mr.  McLaughlin  would  have  the  reader  believe 
that  in  the  outset  of  the  government  the  constitution  created  a  nation, 
and  not  a  league.  Fairness  would  at  least  demand  from  an  impartial 
writer  the  statement  that  the  nature  of  the  L'nion  was  in  controversy 
from  the  very  beginning.  It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  the  Virginia  reso- 
lutions of  *08-'99  set  forth  the  cardinal  principles  of  the  great  Repub- 


Book  Reviews.  •  141 

lican  party;  that  this  party  destroyed  the  Federal  party  who  held  the 
National  view,  and  that  after  1824  all  parties — Democratic  party, 
formed  in  1828,.  the  National  Republican,  formed  in  1828,  and  the 
Whig  party,  formed  in  1834-18a9 — claimed  descent  from  the  Republican 
party  of  Jefferson.  The  resolutions  referred  to  pronounced  the  consti- 
tution "a  compact  to  which  the  States  are  parties."  It  is  in  vain,  there- 
fore, to  say  that  the  diflference  in  the  amount  of  power  and  the  distri- 
bution of  power  between  the  government  under  the  Articles  of  Confedera- 
tion and  the  government  under  the  new  constitution  created  a  nation  in 
the  sense  of  a  consolidated  people,  for  the  constitution  of  the  Con- 
federate States,  though  differing  to  the  same  extent,  created  a  league 
merely.  Suppose  in  the  present  constitution  of  the  United  States  there 
was  a  single  clause,  "This  is  a  league  of  sovereign  States,"  how  would 
the  operation  of  the  laws  on  individuals,  for  instance,  prejudice  this 
declaration?  According  to  the  States-right:^  theory,  each  State  has 
two  governments.  Through  the  Federal  government  the  sovereign  peo- 
ple of  each  State  exercises  all  the  powers  enumerated  in  the  Federal 
Constitution,  and  through  the  home  government  they  exercise  all  the 
powers  not  expressly  denied  by  the  State  and  Federal  Constitutions. 
If  Mr.  McLaughlin  is  not  prepared  himself  to  accept  these  conclusions, 
he  ought  to  be  candid  enough  to  inform  his  readers  that  they  were  the 
views,  in  substance,  entertained  by  many  people,  North  and  South, 
down  to  1SG5.    This  was  the  Virginia  doctrine. 

After  the  same  manner  Mr.  McLaughlin  allows  his  own  personal 
feelings  to  dominate  his  references  to  slavery.  He  is  frank  enough  to 
admit  that  "tlie  importation  of  slaves  till  1808  was  suflicient  to  fasten 
the  slavery  system  on  the  Southern  States''  (page  228,  note).  Yet, 
while  he  excepts  Virginia,  he  appears  to  fix  the  responsibility  for  its 
continuance  on  the  other  Southern  States  alone.  It  is  a  matter  of  his- 
tory that  the  four  New  England  States,  instead  of  standing  by  Vir- 
ginia, voted  with  those  very  Southern  States  to  permit  this  thing  so  dis- 
astrous in  every  respect.  The  excuse  that  Northern  constitutional  writers 
are  fond  of  advancing,  that  the  New  England  States  at  this  time  sacri- 
ficed their  feelings  upon  the  altar  of  the  Union,  for  fear  South  Carolina 
might  otherwise  refuse  to  join  the  Union,  will  not  stand.  The  real 
truth  is  that  the  New  England  States  and  South  Carolina  had  a  com- 
mon interest,  for  the  slaves  brought  in  after  1787  were  almost  entirely 
imported  by  New  England  ships.  When  ^Mr.  Crittenden  in  18G0  pro- 
posed his  compromise  resolutions,  which  gave  the  South,  in  fact,  noth- 
ing more  than  abstract  guaranties  in  a  Union  overwhelmingly  Northern, 
the  New  England  States,  being  without  tliat  common  interest,  would 
not  touch  them  in  any  particular,  but  preferred  a  desolating  war  to 
making  any  terms  with  South  Carolina,  with  whom,  despite  the  bitter 
protest  of  Virginia,  they  were  eager  to  consort  in  1787.  Slavery  was 
undoubtedly  an  evil  to  the  South;  but  in  the  material  aspect,  at  least, 
there  were  other  evils  even  greater  than  slavery.  One  was  the  presence 
of  the  negro  as  a  large  factor  in  the  Southern  population,  and  the 
other  was  the  unscrupulous  imposition  upon  the  South,  by  the  Northern 


142  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

majority,  of  commercial  laws,  which  continually  drained  the  South  of  its 
resources.  If  the  South  lajjged  behind  the  North  in  1800,  how  about 
1900?  Relatively,  the  Soutli  is  far  poorer  to-day  than  she  was  in  ISOO, 
and  it  is  because  in  doing  away  with  slavery  the  negro  and  financial 
tyranny  are  still  retained.  In  the  single  item  of  pensions  to  Federal 
soldiers,  the  South  has  paid  the  North  more  than  France  paid  Ger- 
many for  its  war  in  1873. 

Mr.  McLaughlin  makes  many  other  errors,  both  of  omission  and  of 
commission.  Of  the  former,  the  following  may  be  cited:  lie  says  no- 
thing of  the  attempt  of  tlie  Northern  States  in  178G  to  surrender  the 
free  navigation  of  the  ^Mississippi  in  return  for  some  advantages  to  the 
fisheries.  In  regard  to  the  slave  trade,  he  does  not  mention  that  the 
Virginia  statesmen  secured  the  passage  of  the  law  in  1820  denouncing 
the  slave  trade  as  piracy.  He  makes  no  mention  of  the  African  Coloniza- 
tion Society,  nor  of  the  movement  in  the  Virginia  Legislature,  as  late  as 
1832,  to  abolish  slavery.  The  first  of  these  omissions  is  a  very  grave  one, 
for  it  shows  that  at  the  very  dawn  of  the  constitution  the  Northern 
States  made  a  deliberate  attempt  to  stop  the  expansion  of  the  South 
before,  indeed,  the  national  conscience  was  at  all  aroused  on  the  subject 
of  slavery.  The  latter  omissions  are  also  very  grave,  since  they  do  not 
coincide  with  his  theory  that  the  cotton-gin  promoted  the  growth  of 
slavery,  from  the  time  of  its  invention  in  1793.  We  have  the  highest 
authority — that  of  Eli  Thayer,  of  Massachusetts,  in  his  Kansas  Crusade 
— that  it  was  the  abolitionists  of  the  Garrison  type  that  excited  the 
South  on  the  subject  of  slavery  and  chiefly  started  the  spirit  of  contiict. 
Again,  in  likening  the  action  of  the  Hartford  Convention  to  that  of  Vir- 
ginia in  1799,  Mr.  McLaughlin  fails  to  note  the  difference — that  the 
action  of  the  Hartford  Convention  was  taken  while  the  country  was  at 
•war  with  a  foreign  government,  while  the  action  of  Virginia  was  taken 
when  the  country  was  at  peace — a  most  important  difference.  He  is 
entirely  wrong  in  saying  that  the  tariff  of  1832  reduced  the  tariff  of 
1828.  It  in  effect  raised  that  tariff,  for,  while  it  took  the  rates  off  things 
like  tea  and  coffee  that  did  not  enter  into  competition  with  things  pro- 
duced in  this  country,  it  kept  the  rates  on  woollens  and  cottons  at  the 
same  height.  He  places  upon  Jackson  the  responsibility  of  beginning 
"the  spoils  system,"  which  he  properly  defines  as  giving  '"'offices  to  par- 
tisans." This  hit  at  Jackson  is  unjust,  for  it  is  well  known  that  John 
Adams  did  as  Jackson  did,  and  filled  all  the  public  offices  with  partisans, 
keeping  up  the  work  down  to  midnight  of  the  day  preceding  the  inaugu- 
ration of  Mr.  Jefferson.  He  says,  in  another  place,  that  Harrison  de- 
clared for  a  bank  charter.  Harrison  never  declared  for  a  bank  charter; 
the  Whigs  had  no  platform,  and  in  all  the  States  they  (Clay  included) 
posed  as  the  true  States  rights  successors  of  the  Republican  party  of 
1801.  Wlienever  a  pronounced  Southern  man  comes  up,  Mr.  McLaughlin 
does  not  appear  impartial.  His  autliority  for  Tyler's  administration  is 
not  the  original  record,  but  tlie  second-hand  and  often  gossipy  expres- 
sions of  persons  notoriously  unfriendly  to  Tyler  and  to  Southern  men  in 


Book  Keviews.  143 

general — Schouler,  Von  Hoist,  Thurlow  Weed,  etc.  His  reference  to 
Mr.  Tyler  as  President  by  ''sheer  accident'*  is  misplaced.  Mr.  Tyler  was 
President  by  virtue  of  election  i\nd  the  constitution,  wliich  creates  a 
Vice-President  for  the  very  purpose  of  succession.  As  well  might  Queen 
Victoria  be  called  ''an  accidental  queen"  because  her  accession  was  de- 
pendent upon  the  death  of  William  IV.  In  the  same  spirit  of  detraction, 
Lincoln  might  be  called  an  "accidental  President"  because  his  nomination 
was  a  surprise  and  his  election  eflccted  by  a  minority  of  the  people. 
Dr.  McLauglilin  quotes  a  belittling  remark  of  Thurlow  Weed  about  the 
nomination  for  the  Vice-Presidency  being  otTered  to  Mr.  Tyler  after  all 
others  had  declined.  Xow,  Weed  was  one  of  the  very  "tricksters"'  who  had 
opposed  Clay's  nomination  because  he  (Clay)  had  yielded  too  much  to 
Southern  views.  All  the  more  he  feared  Mr.  Tyler,  and  we  can  well  be- 
lieve that  Weed  and  his  friends  were  not  anxious  for  his  nomination; 
but  the  mistake  of  Mr.  McLaughlin  is  that  he  gives  any  weight  to 
Weed's  machinations.  So  contemptible  were  these  movements  to  Tyler's 
injury  that,  according  to  the  statements  of  one  of  the  conspirators,  the 
effort  failed  in  the  case  of  Preston,  of  South  Carolina,  "since  not  a  single 
Southern  delegate  approved  the  suggestion  of  his  nomination  for  Vice- 
President."  Weed  and  his  friends — Webb,  Seward,  and  the  other  anti- 
Masons — made  the  great  mistake  of  supposing  that  their  whispering  in 
dark  corners  was  the  express  voice  of  the  convention.  Mr.  Tyler  had 
already  in  1836  received  a  nomination  for  Vice-President,  and  was  un- 
doubtedly in  1839  the  most  distinguished  Southern  Whig.  His  nomi- 
nation was  a  matter  of  course.  Mr.  ZvIcLaughlin's  account  of  the  attack 
of  Preston  Brooks  on  Sumner  is  unfortunate,  and  is  not  supported  by 
the  report  of  the  committee  of  Congress.  Brooks  advanced  from  the 
front,  in  full  view  of  Sumner,  and  not  from  behind.  On  page  4'26,  Mr. 
McLaughlin  seems  to  say  that  "the  South  fought  for  slavery  and  not  for 
home  rule."  The  admitted  facts  of  the  case  show  the  folly  of  such  a 
statement.  What  had  the  South  to  gain  for  slavery  by  secession?  Vir- 
ginia and  other  Southern  States  seceded  when  war  had  begun.  Even 
South  Carolina  had  every  reason  to  know  that  her  action  would  be  met 
by  war.  The  South  had  every  reason  to  suppose  that  if  she  failed,  she 
would  be  punished  by  the  abolition  of  slavery;  that  if  she  succeeded,  she 
would  lose  all  protection  from  the  fugitive  slave  laws.  Secession  greatly 
imperilled  slavery  in  any  event.  Mr.  ^McLaughlin  must  be  blind,  indeed, 
if  he  does  not  see  that  his  own  history  shows,  between  the  lines,  that 
the  South  was  struggling  for  home  rule.  The  South  resented  the  tariff 
because  one  totally  alien  section  of  the  country,  despite  her  united  pro- 
tests, insisted  on  taxing  her  agricultural  interests  to  death.  She 
resented,  on  principle,  the  action  of  the  Xorth  in  regard  to  the  territories 
after  the  question  even  had  become  an  abstract  one,  for  abstract  or  not 
the  North  deliberately  had  set  up  a  rule  of  her  own  for  a  country  ac- 
quired by  the  comtnon  treasure  and  common  blood.  WTiat  inducement 
had  Robert  E.  Lee,  and  many  other  non-slaveholders  like  him,  to  head 
the  armies  of  the  South  except  home  rule — devotion  to  his  State?     In 


144  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

fact,  it  will  be  written  some  day  that  the  South,  having  a  domain  half 
the  size  of  Europe  and  a  population  much  larger  than  many  independent 
nations,  with  institutions  totally  differing  from  the  Xorlh,  attempted 
peacefully  to  set  up  a  government  of  her  own.  She  claimed  to  do  so  on 
the  ground  of  natural  right,  on  the  ground  of  constitutional  right, 
repeatedly  claimed  from  the  beginning  of  the  government,  and  on  the 
ground  of  "an  irrepressible  conflict"  which,  according  to  even  Lincoln 
and  Seward,  made  union  a  mockery.  Nevertheless,  she  was  invaded  from 
the  Xorth  by  great  armies,  her  people  slaughtered,  her  institutions  over- 
thrown, and  her  territory  dragged  back  into  union  with  the  Northern 
States  on  their  own  terms.  The  judgment  of  history  must  be  the  same, 
no  matter  how  powerful  the  South  becomes  under  the  new  order  of 
things,  or  how  fortunate  for  the  world — as  I  hope  it  may  prove — the 
result  may  be;  the  action  of  the  North  was  a  pure  invasion  and  con- 
quest, and  nothing  else  can  be  made  of  it. 

The  statement  made  on  page  420  that  the  "South  was  ready  for 
war;  the  North  almost  entirely  unprepared,"  is  something  so  absurd 
that  I  do  not  recollect  seeing  such  a  claim  advanced  in  even  the  partisan 
books  of  the  North  written  twenty  years  ago.  It  suflices  of  itself  to 
stamp  Mr.  McLaughlin's  work  as  utterly  unfair  and  untrustworthy. 
What  a  contrast  j\Ir.  McLaughlin  affords  to  Mr.  John  C.  Eopes,  a 
Massachusetts  man,  in  his  Story  of  the  Civil  War.! 


Genealogical  Searches 

MILL  be  made  on  reasonable  terms  in  the  splendid 
and  extensive  collection  of  English  and  American 
Genealogical  Works  in  the  Library  of  Congress, 
and  in  the  Public  Records  in  Washington.  Fifteen  years' 
experience  in  this  class  of  work  enables  me  to  do  it  thor- 
oughly, expeditiously  and  satisfactorily.  Exceptional  facili- 
ties for  establishing  Proofs  of  Services  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  Expert  advice  as  to  how  to  prosecute 
searches  for  genealogical  information  in  England,  after 
the  data  in  the  Library  of  Congress  has  been  exhausted. 
I  have  access,  in  several  libraries,  to  hundreds  of  works  on 
English  Heraldry,  so  that  Seals,  Coats  of  Arms,  Etc., 
may  be  found  and  identified. 

Virginia  Genealogies  a  Specialty. 
''^'"'""X'l:!^^^^^^^^^^^^  C.  QUISENBERRY, 

726  Fifth  Street  N.  E.,  WASHINGTON,  D. 


flliam  anb  fijar^  Colleoe 

©uartcrl?  TlDtstorical  fiDagasine. 

Vol.  Vni.  JA:^^ARY,  1900.  No.  3. 


7 


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Book,  2s.  Britain's  Remembrancer,  Gd.   ]\Ianagement  of  Hawks, 

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A  book  case,  oak,  £3.     A  desk,  mahogany,  10s.     A  dressing 

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a  reflecting  telescope,  £6,  &c.,  &c.,  &c.     Total  inventory,  £1030 

7s.  lid. 

Note. 

John  Herbert  made  his  will  in  Chesterfield  county  in  1760,  and  left 
his  property  to  his  "brother  William  Anderson  and  Herbert  Claiborne, 
son  of  my  cousin  Mary  Claiborne."  As  ^Slary  Claiborne  was  a  daughter 
of  Capt.  BuUer  Herbert  and  Mary  Stith  his  wife  (Slaughter's  History  of 
Bristol  Parish,  pp.  107,  107),  this  John  Herbert  must  have  been  a  son 
of  Richard  Herbert,  brother  of  Capt.  Buller  Herbert.  Mary  Claiborne  it 
seems  had  a  brother  of  the  same  name  as  testator,  who  was  born 
April  4,  1724,  and  a  sister  Ann,  born  March  11,  172G-'27.  There  is  also 
recorded  Frances,  daughter  of  Eichard  Herbert  and  Phebe  his  wife,  born 
March  21,  1726-'27.  [Bristol  Parish  Register.)  The  will  of  Pachard 
Herbert  was  proved  in  Henrico  county  in  1731,  and  names  daughter 
Frances,  son  John  and  wife  Phebe.  John  Herbert  was  in  1740-'41  ward 
of  James  Powell  Cocke,  who  married  Herbert's  aunt,  Martha  Herbert. 
Frances  Herbert,  nee  Anderson,  mother  of  Capt.  Buller  Herbert,  was 
sister  of  John  Anderson,  of  Prince  George  county,  and  married,  secondly, 
Peter  Wynne.  Her  will  was  proved  in  172G-'7.  A  Capt.  John  Herbert 
was  a  vestryman  of  Bristol  Parish  in  1722,  and  was  probably  a  brother 
of  Buller  and  Eichard  Herbert,  but  not  much  is  known  of  him. 

Buller  and  Richard  Herbert  were  sons  of  John  Herbert,  of  Prince 
Oeorge  county,  and  Frances  Anderson  his  wife.  He  died  March  17,  1704, 
in  his  forty-sixth  year.  According  to  his  tombstone,  which  was  lately 
taken  from  the  family  residence,  '"Puddledock,"  in  Diuwiddie  county 
(formerly  part  of  Prince  George)  to  BUmdford  church-yard  in  Peters- 
burg, John  Herbert  was  son  of  John  Herbert,  apothecary  of  London, 
and  grandson  of  Eichard  Herbert,  citizen  and  grocer  of  London.  It  has 
always  been  the  claim  of  the  family  that  these  Herberts  were  descended 


148  Willia:m  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

from  the  family  of  Lord  Herbert  of  Cherbury,  \vhicli  claim  is  supported 
by  the  arms  and  crest  engraved  upon  tlie  tombstone  being  the  same  as 
those  borne  by  Sir  Rieluird  Herbert  of  Colbrook,  youngest  brother  of 
William,  first  Earl  of  Pembroke.  (Slaughter's  Bristol  Parish;  Wil- 
liam AXD  Mary  Quarterly,  V.,  pp.  230,  240.)  In  the  Visitation  of 
London  (1634)  the  following  pedigree  appears,  employing  the  same 
arms  and  crest: 

HERBERT. 

Math.  Herbert,  of  Colbrook,  Esqr.  =  Dau.  of  *•  Herbert, 

j  sister  to  Sir  Wra.  Herbert,  of 

I  hwansey,  Co.  Glamorgan. 


William  Herbert,  of  Colbrooke,  ==  Katherlne.  dau.  of  Tho. 
In  Co.  Monmoutb,  Esq"".  I  Morgan,  of  Tredeser, 

I  iu  Co.  rilonmoutli. 


I  I 

1.  William  Herbert,  of  Colbrooke,  Esqr,  3.  iilatthew  Herbert  =  Elizabeth, 

eldest  son  of  William.  of  London,  dau. 

draper,  A"  16S4.  of  James 

2.  Thomas.  Rudiard. 

of  Loudon, 
grocer. 


n  11  I 

4.  Eichard.         Cecil.  Jane.  Katherine.  Tnfe  to 

5.  John.  Dorothy.       M'garet.  Henry  Powell,  of 

Shotesbrooke. 

Math.  Herbert. 

It  is  very  probable  that  Richard,  the  grandfather  of"  the  Virginia 
emigrant,  was  the  Richard  nientioned  in  this  pedigree  as  the  brother 
of  William  Herbert  of  Colbrook,  Esqr.,  who  was  eldest  son  of  William 
Herbert  of  the  same  place,  wdio  was  son  of  Matthew  Herbert  of  that 
place.  This  Matthew  appears  to  have  been  a  kinsman  of  Richard  of  Col- 
brook, Esq.,  father  of  Edward,  first  Lord  Herbert  of  Cherbury,  who 
wrote  a  curious  life  of  himself,  and  was  brother  of  George  Herbert,  "the 
sweet  singer."  (See  Collins'  Peerage,  Vol.  V.,  p.  554.) 

In  Norfolk  county,  Va.,  there  was  a  family  of  Herberts  at  an  early 
date.  John  Herbert  made  his  will  in  1079,  and  left  his  estate,  after  his  wife, 
to  his  son  John  and  the  child  unborn.  His  wife  was  to  enjoy  the  estate 
as  long  as  she  lived.  Should  the  children  die,  then  his  estate  was  to  go 
to  Richard  and  Edward  Lewellin.  Names  his  ''brother  Thomas  Wil- 
loughby."  Thomas  Herbert,  "aged  and  weak,"  made  his  will  in  1749, 
and  names  his  sons  Markeom,  Thomas,  Henry,  John,  William,  Hillery. 
dau.  Margaret  Tucker,  grandson  Nathaniel,  son  of  son  Thomas,  grand- 
dau.  Courtney,  dau.  of  Markeon,  granddau.  Elizabeth,  wife  Margaret  and 
uncle  Richard  Herbert. 

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'  Note. 

Dr.  David  Black  married  Anne  McKenzie,  daughter  of  Dr.  Kenneth 
McKenzie,  of  ■\Villiamsbiirg.  He  left  a  son  David  Black,  Jr.,  who  died 
without  children,  and  his  lots  in  Blandford  came  to  Joanna  McKenzie, 
his  first  cousin  (dau.  of  Dr.  William  McKenzie),  who  was  second  wife  of 
Judge  James  Semple,  Professor  of  Law  in  William  and  Mary,  and 
mother  of  the  late  Major  Henry  Churchill  Semple,  of  Alabama,  and  of 
Dr.  George  William  Semple,  of  Hampton  (see  p.  IG,  17). 


The  Oldest  Brick  House.  151 

THE  OLDEST  BRICK  HOUSE. 

I  have  supposed  that  "Bacon's  Castle,"  in  Surry  county,  was 
the  oldest  brick  house  in  Yir<^inia  for  which  we  have  contempo- 
rary evidence.  Major  Arthur  Allrn  loJ't  this  estate,  which  was 
his  "manor  plantation,'^  to  his  son  James  Allen.  The  latter  gave 
it  "to  his  sister  Catherine,  wife  of  Benjamin  Cocke.  Thence  it 
went  to  Allen  Cocke,  her  son,  thence  to  Allen's  son,  Benjamin 
Cocke,  then  it  went  to  Benjamin's  brother,  Allen  Cocke,  who  in 
1802  devised  "Bacon's  Castle"  to  his  sister,  Ann  Hunt  Bradby, 
widow  of  James  Allen  Bradby,  who  at  her  death  in  1838  gave  all 
her  property  to  Indiana  Allen  Robinson.  The  estate  is  now 
owned  by  Mr.  C.  W.  Warren,  who  has  added  a  modem  buildings 
but  left  the  old  structure  intact.  This  structure  was  standing  in 
1676,  and  was  probably  built  some  years  previous  by  Major  Ar- 
thur Allen's  father,  Mr.  Arthur  Allen,  a  justice  of  the  peace  for 
the  county,  who  died  in  1671. 

Now  comes  evidence  that  there  is  still  another  house  in  Surry 
county,  which  has  even  greater  pretensions  to  antiquity.  There 
is  a  quaint  brick  building,  one  stor}'  and  a  half,  standing  near 
Gray's  Creek,  on  the  way  from  Scotland  Wharf  to  the  court- 
house, which  is  unquestionably  the  building  referred  to  in  the 
extracts  from  the  records  below.*  According  to  this  authority, 
the  building  began  to  be  erected  in  the  year  1651. 

Smith's  Fort  plantation  lay  next  to  550  acres  granted  to 
Thomas  Gray  August  27,  1635,  "over  against  James  City,  south 
side  of  the  river,  west  by  Rolfe's  Creek"  (now  Gray's  Creek),  due 
Gray^  **'as  an  ancient  planter  at  or  before  the  time  of  Sir  Thomas 
Dale,"  and  for  the  adventure  of  his  first  wife  Anis  Gray,  his 
second  wife  Rebecca  Gray,  and  his  two  sons  William  Gray  and 
John  Gray.f  Smith's  Fort  plantation  lies  two  miles  up  Gray's 
creek.  ' 

The  depossition  of  Tho.  Pittmann,  Senr.,  aged  sixty-three  years  or 
thereabouts,  examined,  sworn  and  saith: 

That  Mr.  Tho.  Warring,  his  heires  and  assignes,  have  peasably  and 
quietly  possessed  and  injoyed  in  theire  one  Riglits  yt  plantation  called 
Smiths  forte  on  which  Mr.  John  Sallway  is  now;  seated,  and  whearewith 
the  said  Sallway  is  now  possessed  in  ye  said  right  of  Mr.  Warring,  which 
right  has  been  held  upward  of  twenty  and  eight  years  without  any  sute 

■*  Kindly  made  for  the  Editor  by  the  clerk,  A.  S.  Edwards,  Esq. 
t  The  Grays  are  a  well-known  family  of  Surry  county. 


152  William  axd  Mary  Colli:ge  Quarterly. 

or  trouble  or  mollistation  concerning  the  same,  and  further  yt  about  five 
or  six  and  twenty  yeare  since,  the  said  Air.  Warring  did  begin  to  build 
that  fifty  foot  Brick  house  which  now  stands  upon  ye  said  land  and 
without  being  forewarned  or  disturbed  by  any  person,  finished  the  same, 
and  that  Mr.  Tho.  E<jlfe  was  then  living  and  lived  sevwal  yeares  after, 
and  was  commonly  at  JNlr.  Warring  his  house,  before  and  after,  and 
whilest  ye  said  house  was  building,  and  that  Capt,  Barrett,  father  to 
Mt.  James  Barrett,  now  living,  was  then  living,  when  the  said  house  was 
a  building,  and  did  live  a  while  after,  and  that  the  said  Capt.  Barrett  did 
never  claim  that  ever  was  known  any  right  in  any  part  of  ye  said  land 
before  expressed,  and  further  your  deponent  hath  seen  a  wrighting  in 
Mr.  Warring's  possession  signed  and  sealed,  wherein  Air.  Tho.  Rolfe  did 
make  over  all  his  right  and  titell  in  ye  said  plantation  called  Smiths 
forte  to  Mr.  Warring,  his  lieires  and  assignes  forever,  and  that  the 
righting  was  Mr.  Rolfe  his  own  hand,  for  your  deponent  in  the  yeare 
1653  was  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Warring,  and  Mr,  Rolfe  was  present  when 
Mr.  Warring  showed  your  deponent  ye  convaiarice  of  Mr.  Rolfe,  and  he 
did  own  it,  and  tould  ye  said  Warring  that  if  it  was  not  sufitiant  a  con- 
vaiance  he  would  make  it  new,  with  a  larger  expression,  when  he  would 
have  it,  for  he  nor  his  heires  should  ever  be  troubled  by  him  or  his,  and 
that  there  hath  been  no  survey  of  this  said  land  this  twenty  and  eight 
yeares,  your  deponent  having  lived  ever  since  in  the  same  county  and 
parish,  very  neare  to  the  said  land.  This  is  to  the  best  of  your  deponent's 
knowledge,  and  further  saith  not. 

(Signed)  Tno.  PiTXiiAX. 

Sworn  in  open  court  held  for  the  county  of  Surry,  March  ye  5th,  1677. 

Test:    W.  E.  Cu.;    Vera  Record:  th  M^ch  19th,  1U77. 

Eichd  Fras  testifies  to  same,  except  that  he  was  present  in  Mr.  War- 
ring's  house  with  Warring,  Air.  Rolfe,  Air.  Alason  and  others  when  Rolfe 
with  his  own  hand  wrote  a  bill  of  sale  for  the  Smiths  forte  plantation  to 
Air.  Warring,  and  Air.  Warring  paid  Rolfe  part  of  the  consideration  in 
corncj  and  that  that  was  about  33  or  34  years  since.  Signed  by  Fras 
and  recorded  Alarch  19,  1G77. 

On  June  10,  1654,  Tho.  Rolfe  granted  to  Wm.  Corker  150  acres  land 
in  Surry  county,  lying  between  "Smith's  fort  old  field  and  the  De^'i^3 
Woodyard  Swamp,"'  being  due  unto  the  said  Rolfe  by  guift  from  the 
Indian  King. 

According  to  a  deposition  Alay  3,  IGGl,  Thomas  Warren  was  then 
forty  years  old. 

On  November  2,  1070  "Jane  Warren,  relict  of  Air.  Thomas  Warren, 
deced,  and  Alatthias  Alarriott,  who  hath  married  Alice  Warren,  ye  only 
sister  of  y«  whole  blood  unto  Air.  Wm.  Warren,  deceased,  ye  sonne  to  ye 
aforesaid  Thomas  Warren,"  joined  in  a  deed.  Sept.  25,  1054,  Air.  Thomas 
Warren  and  Airs.  Elizuljeth  Shepard  entered  into  marriage  articles  in 
favor  of  her  children  Ann,  John,  Robert,  William,  Priscella  and  Susanna 
Shepard. 


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GLIMPSES  OF  OLD  COLLEGE  LIFE. 

At  William  and  Mary,  Washington  Academy,  Yale,  College  of  South 
Carolina  and  Nassau  Hall  at  Princeton. 

In  the  correspondence  of  John  Coalter,  formerly  judge  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Virginia,  are  many  letters  interesting  for  their 
notice  of  William  and  ^lary  College  and  Williamshurg.  Judge 
Coalter,  at  the  time  these  letters  were  written,  was  a  tutor  in  the 
family  of  Judge  St.  George  Tucker,  who  succeeded  Chancellor 
Wythe  as  the  professor  of  what  was  the  first  law  school  at  any 
American  College.  Judge  Coalter  married  first  ^laria  Eind, 
widow  of  Joseph  Hornsby,  of  Williamsburg,  who  had  two  broth- 
ers, James  and  William  Eind,  the  former  of  whom  was  a  clever 
letter  writer  and  lawyer  living  in  Eichmond  in  ISOrt.  Maria 
(Eind)  Coalter  died  in  1T92,  when  she  had  not  been  married 
quite  a  year. 

John  Coalter  married,  second,  15  February,  1795,  ^liss  Mar- 
garet Davenport  of  Williamsburg.  Iler  father  died  when  she 
was  a  small  child.  Her  mother  was  named  Frances  and  her 
brother,  the  only  other  child,  was  named  James,  who  seems  to 
have  been  in  the  employ  of  his  cousin  Eobert  Greenhow.  j[rs. 
Davenport  vrent  with  her  daughter  to  Staunton  on  the  latter's 
marriasre  with  Judee  Coalter,  and  died  there  in  1816.    Mars^aret 

O  CD  ^  ~ 

(Davenport)  Coalter  died  about  1T97,  and  Judge  Coalter  mar- 
ried, third,  in  1S02,  Frances  Bland  Tucker,  daughter  of  Judge 
St.  George  Tucker.     She  died  in  1813,  and  was  the  only  one  of  . 
the  three  "^ives  to  leave  issue — two  daughters  and  a  son. 

The  extracts  below  were  kindly  made  for  the  editor  by  ^Ir. 
Charles  Washington  Coleman. 

WlLLIA^C    MUXB^ORD    TO   JOHX    Co ALTER. 

Williamsburg,  13  June,  1700. — Student  at  College  of  William  and 
Mary.  "Mrs.  Hornesby,  the  mother  of  your  Inamorata,  after  a  long  fit 
of  illness,  died  day  before  yesterday."  (The  "Inamorata"  and  afterwards 
the  first  wife  of  John  Coalter,  was  ^laria  Rind.)  ...  A  new  student 
at  college  named  Adams.  ''I  wish  we  had  more  Randolphs  and  Coalters." 
.  .  .  ''Your  quondam  charges  Harry,  Tudor  and  Beverley  [Tucker] 
attend  IMr.  Harwood  at  college.''  .  .  .  '"INly  great  resource  is  Mr. 
Wythe.  If  T  was  to  live  with  him,  I  should  at  the  same  time  th.ink  a 
great  point  gained,  and  be  highly  pleased.  Indeed,  from  some  conversa- 
tions we  have  had  together,  I  think  it  likely  he  will  agree.     If  so,  your 


154  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

friends'  fortune  is  made.  Nothing  could  advance  me  faster  in  the  world 
than  the  reputation  of  having  beon  educated  by  ^Ir.  Wythe,  for  such  a 
man  as  he  casts  a  light  upon  all  around  him." 

Williamsburg,  23  April,  1791. — Has  returned  to  Wmsburg  after  ab- 
sence of  eight  months,  and  is  settled  as  a  student  of  law  in  the  house  of 
Chancellor  Wythe."  ...  "I  scarcely  know  a  place  more  pleasing  than 
Wmsburg,  which  may  justly  receive  the  title  (which  Homer  gives  Greece) 
of  the  'land  of  lovely  dames,'  for  here  may  be  found  beauty  in  perfection, 
and  not  only  beauty,  but  sociability  in  the  ladies."  ...  "I  am  glad 
that  heaven  has  destined  for  you  such  an  amiable  partner  as  Miss  Maria 
Rind."  .  .  .  "There  are  a  great  many  new  collegians  here,  and  I  am 
hitherto  acquainted  with  none  of  them." 

Williamsburg,  10  May,  1791. — "Tom  Randolph  [a  student]  is  at 
home,  and  whether  he  will  return  is  uncertain."  .  .  .  "Among  the  new 
students  is  a  Mr.  [James]  Ash,  who  seems  a  sensible  young  man,  with  a 
very  good  taste  in  poetry,  and  no  contemptible  talent  of  composing  him- 
self." .  .  .  "Miss  Betsy  Maupin  begs  you  will  not  neglect  her.  I  have 
never  heard  from  Jack  Randolph." 

Riveredge  (Charles  City  county),  2G  May,  1791.  (To  Maria  Rind  in 
Williamsburg.) — Mentions  "Sister  Kennon,"  of  Mecklenburg,  and  her 
two  boys  and  a  girl,  and  "Sister  Byrd"  and  her  four  girls  and  a  boy. 
"Sister  Byrd"  expects  to  "add  a  seventh  child  to  her  family"  in  July. 
(These  ladies  were  Elizabeth  Beverley  Munford,  wife  of  General  Richard 
Kennon,  of  Mecklenburg,  and  Anne  Munford,  wife  of  Otway  Byrd,  of 
Charles  City  county) .  .  .  .  "My  love  to  Miss  Betsy  Maupin."  .  .  . 
"If  mama  comes  down,  we  may  expect  to  see  her  in  Wmsburg  after  Mrs. 
Carter  has  become  Mrs.  Tucker."  (Lelia,  daughter  of  Sir  Peyton  Skip- 
with,  Bart.,  and  widow  of  George  Carter,  of  Corotoman,  became  the  sec- 
ond wife  of  Judge  St.  George  Tucker,  8  October,  1791.  Their  children 
died  infants.)  .  .  .  "My  compliments  to  all  the  collegians  who  inquire 
of  me,  and  especially  to  Edwin  Burwell  and  Mr.  Jas.  Asb."  .  .  .  ► 
Munford  addresses  ^laria  Rind  as  "Mammy  Dee." 

Williamsburg,  12  June,  1791.  (To  John  Coalter,  Staunton.) — Men- 
tions the  "death  of  my  brother-in-law  Kennon 's  sister  Cocke,  the  wife 
of  the  gentleman  who  lived  at  Swan's  Point."  .  .  .  Interesting  men- 
tion of  Mr.  Wythe,  in  whose  house  he  lives.  .  .  .  "The  friend  of  my 
youth,  Mr.  Tucker,  is  in  town,  and  his  company  serves  to  enliven  my 
time.'^  .  .  .  Discourse  upon  his  own  poetry.  .  .  .  (P.  S.  of  later 
date)  "The  fourth  of  July  was  celebrated  at  college  with  four  excellent 
orations  delivered  by  Mr.  James  Ash,  ^Ir.  John  Thomson,  Mr.  Littleton 
W.  Tazewell,  and  Mr.  Robert  Taylor,  nephew  to  Dr.  Barraud.  Old 
Mother  Millar  is  in  town." 

Williamsburg,  22  July,  1791. — "We  had  a  merry  ball,  night  before 
last  night,  at  Mr.  Travis's,  intended  to  celebrate  the  return  of  his  son 
Ned  from  sea.  At  the  same  time  they  had  a  christening,  and  the  cake 
flew  about  in  vast  abundance.  I  was  invited,  but  very  few  of  the  students 
were  invited  with  me.     However,  there  were  present  a  great  number  of 


Glimpses  of  Old  College  Life.  155 

beautiful  girls,  Miss  E.  Maupin,  Miss  E.  Lewis  and  Miss  P.  Lewis,  Miss 
Betsy  Tazewell  and  Miss  Nancy,  the  sister  of  Littleton  Waller  Tazewell,, 
and  Miss  Nancy  Hubbard.  So  that  we  had  a  very  merry  party,  and  (I 
•would  have  enjoyed  it  much  more  if  you  hod  been  there)  wo  danced  till 
twelve  o'clock  except  the  time  we  were  enjragcd  in  partaking  of  an  ex- 
cellent supper.  The  company  then  retired,  and  I  walked  home  with  Miss 
E.  Maupin,  who  is  if  possible  more  beautiful  than  when  you  saw  her 
last.  Oh!  my  friend,  your  dear  Maria  was  not  there,  but  I  know  not 
whether  with  or  without  an  invitation."  ...  "I  slept  with  Robin 
Carter,  and  breakfasted  at  Mr.  Madison's."  .  .  .  "The  Blair  family  is- 
in  some  measure  separated.  Mr.  Blair  and  Jemmy,  wlio  has  suffered  a 
long  fit  of  sickness,  are  gone  to  Richmond,  and  thence  Mr.  Blair  is  [to] 
proceed  on  his  circuit.  Jemmy  is  to  be  joined  by  Mrs.  Blair,  who  has 
also  left  to^vn,  and  then  to  go  on  to  the  mountains.  The  only  persons  at 
home  at  present  are  the  two  Miss  Blairs  and  "Miss  Balfour,  and  to  them 
I  shall  give  your  love.  Mrs.  Tazewell  and  ]Mis3  Elizabeth  also  set  out 
for  Berkeley  county  to-morrow,  so  that  the  town  will  be  comparatively 
empty,  especially  as  Miss  E.  Carey  is  gone.  However  Miss  E.  Maupin 
still  remains  with  all  her  beauty.  Miss  Polly  [Maupin]  is  not  in  town. 
.  .  .  Mr.  Tucker  has  been  unwell  for  some  time,  but  is  now  on  the 
recovery.    T.  Randolph  is  better,  and  is  gone  to  N.  York." 

Richmond,  30  Sept.,  1791. — Has  gone  to  Richmond  with  Mr.  Wythe 
on  the  latter's  removal  to  that  place.  Mr.  W.  left  "Wednesday  before 
the  last;"  Munford,  on  account  of  ague,  could  not  follow  until  2S  Sept. 
They  live  in  the  house  of  Mr.  Wm.  Nelson,  who  "intends  to  move  up  to 
his  estate  in  Albemarle,  in  consequence  of  his  appointment  to  the  judge's 
place."  .  .  .  Wythe  and  Munford  go  to  see  the  work  being  done  on  the 
canal. 

Richmond,  14  Dec,  1791. — "You  and  your  sweet  Maria,  I  suppose,  by 
this  time  have  arrived  at  your  habitation,  and  are  enjoying  that  pure 
and  precious  happiness  which  the  chaste  union  of  two  hearts  can  be- 
stow. Long  may  your  happiness  flourish  unchanged,  and  may  you  both 
live  to  see  it  increased  and  multiplied  in  a  progeny  of  children  as  worthy 
as  their  parents."  .  .  .  "Mr.  Wickham,  the  famous  lawyer,  is  to  be 
married  soon  to  Miss  Panning,  and  Mr.  Tazewell  intends  to  reside  at 
his  house  in  Williamsburg  in  future,  or  at  least  during  the  summer 
months.  Old  Wilson,  the  steward  of  William  and  Mary,  has  gone  to 
that  land  whence  there  is  no  return.  .  .  .  Mr.  W'ythe,  my  excellent 
preceptor,  is  well,  and  very  busy  in  preparing  for  the  press  Reports^ 
which  he  intends  to  be  very  large,  of  cases  adjudged  in  the  high  court  of 
chancery." 

Richmond,  16  March,  1792. — "Three  deaths  I  dare  say  will  greatly 
affect  you.  The  first  was  of  Mrs.  Pasture  [Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Wm.  Stith,  D.  D.,  the  historian],  who  after  having  a  large  company  tO' 
tea,  who  all  observed  how  well  she  looked,  was  suddenly  stricken  with 
an  apoplexy  and  died  in  two  hours.  Another  melancholy  proof  of  how 
frail  is  the  thread  of  life  was  displayed  in  tlie  untimely  fall  of  Miss 


156  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

Maria  Skipwith,  who,  with  the  same  appearances,  and  even  greater,  of 
health  than  Mrs.  Pasture,  was  as  suddenly  summoned  away  (to  use  the 
suhlime  expression  of  tlie  Arabians)  by  the  angel  of  death.  Tlieodorick 
Randolph  [second  son  of  Jolin  and  Frances  (Bland)  Randolph]  also  has 
at  length  visited  that  bourn  wlicnce  no  traveller  returns."  .  .  .  Has 
"published  a  poem  on  the  late  defeat  of  Geni.  St.  Clair." 

Richmond,  10  Nov.,  1792. — "Oh!  my  friend,  my  heart  is  indeed 
grieved  that  your  dear  and  excellent  partner  is  dead.  In  her  I,  as  well 
as  you,  lament  a  treasure  never  to  be  recovered."  .  .  .  Ke  is  to  become 
clerk  in  the  custom-house  office  at  Shirley  Hundred.  .  .  .  "The  players 
are  in  town,  and  I  intend  to  get  them  to  bring  a  farce  of  my  father's 
writing  upon  the  stage  this  winter." 

Williamsburg,  20  April,  1794. — Is  now  at  William  and  Mary,  a  stu- 
dent of  law  under  Judge  Tucker.  Has  been  with  a  party  of  students  to 
Hampton  Roads  and  Norfolk  to  see  the  French  fleet  and  a  British  frigate. 
150  ships  in  the  French  fleet.  Went  on  board  the  admiraFs  ship  of  84 
guns.  .  .  .  "As  to  Robert  Banister  [second  son  of  Col.  John  and  Eliza- 
beth (Bland)  Banister,  of  Battersea,  near  Petersburg],  I  have  to  tell  you 
what  I  am  sure  will  afTect  you  wdth  lively  sorrow.  The  poor  young 
fellow  has  been  dead  some  time  by  an  unfortunate  accident.  As  he  was 
getting  out  of  a  vessel  into  a  boat  he  fell  with  his  breast  against  the 
side  of  the  boat  with  such  violence  that  he  died  in  a  few  moments.  A 
melancholy  instance  this  of  the  frailty  of  human  life.  He  had  been  out 
to  sea  for  the  benefit  of  his  health,  and  had  returned  perfectly  reinstated 
and  was  about  to  set  out  for  Cambridge  College." 

Williamsburg,  30  Feb.  (?),  17S9.— "One  of  my  brothers  will  doubt- 
less be  in  before  this  comes  to  hand,  till  which  time  I  shall  wait  with 
impatience  a  full  account  of  their  various  successes  and  proceedings, 
their  resolutions  and  intentions,  etc.  Is  my  sister  as  happy  and  merry 
as  ever?  And  do  you  all  with  the  same  cheerfulness  and  mirth  sit  about 
the  blazing  hearth  these  long  evenings,  part  handeling  their  distaff, 
others  measuring  their  day's  labour  on  the  checkreel,  whilst  one  reads 
from  Tristram  some  laughable  or  affecting  scene  by  Uncle  Toby  as  the 
corporal,  beguiling  the  labour,  until  at  length  the  board  smokes  with  an 
enormous  dish  of  mush?  How  willingly  would  I  join  you  in  all  these 
amusements!  but  particularly  the  last!  Is  Cajy  (?)  as  droll  and  Polly 
as  wild  as  ever?  Doth  my  grandfather  and  grandmothers  still  live? 
Uncle  McPheeters'  family  and  all  other  friends  are  well,  I  hope. 

John  Coalter  to  his  Father  2^Iiciiael  Coalter. 

Williamsburg,  Va.,  Jan.  27,  1780. — "I  hope  to  be  able  eventually  to 
attend  Mr.  Madison's  lectures  on  natural  philosophy,  and  Mr.  Wythe's 
on  law  when  I  have  read  sufficient  on  that  branch  to  enable  me  to  do  it 
■with  advantage." 

Williamsburg,  Va.,  Jan.  30,  1789. — "I  expect  my  situation  here  will 
be  very  advantageous.     I  spend  about  three  hours  a  day  in  my  capacity 


Glimpses  of  Old  College  Life.  157 

of  tutor  [in  Judge  St.  George  Tucker's  family],  which  is  all  that  is  re- 
quired; shall  attend  Mr.  jMadison'.s  lectures  on  philosophy,  having  re- 
ceived a  very  polite  invitation  from  the  gentleman  himself  to  that  pur- 
pose and  Dr.  Wythe,  as  I  mentioned  above.  Boarding  is  about  4o£ 
pr.  an." 

Williamsburg,  30  (  ?)  Feb.,  1780. — "I  find  myself  as  happily  situated 
as  the  character  of  a  tutor  wliich  I  entertain  will  admit  of,  and  if  I  am 
industrious  enough  as  advantageously  as  I  could  expect.  I  have  no  in- 
come more  than  vv'ill  enable  me' to  attend  the  Professor,  as  in  short  Mr. 
Tucker  settles  that  matter  /or  me,  and  gives  me  my  board  and  the  use 
of  his  library,  etc.,  for  my  attention  to  his  children.  Board  is  45£  pr.  an., 
at  least  here.  I  have  not  yet  begun  to  attend  Dr.  Wythe  on  Law,  but 
shall  as  soon  as  Mr.  Tucker  shall  think  it  advantageous.  In  the  mean- 
time I  attend  Mr.  Madison,  the  professor  of  natural  philosophy.  As  ]\'lr. 
Tucker's  house  is  small  and  his  family  large,  I  sleep  in  the  house  of  a 
Mr.  Wickhara  next  door,  who  is  a  practitioner  of  the  law,  and  keeps 
Bachelor's  Hall." 

William  ^,Iu>:ford  to  Joitx  Coalter. 

Williamsburg,  5  Aug.,  1791. — Wm.  Cabell,  a  student,  has  gone  off  on 
vacation. 

Richmond,  17  May,  1792. — "I  have  seen  lately  several  of  our  old  col- 
legians. .  .  .  The  institution  flourishes,  and  there  are  40  students." 
.  .  .  "Thomson  has  left  William  and  ^lary,  and  his  mother  proposes  to 
send  him  to  the  University  of  Cambridge  in  Xew  England.  .  .  .  Dick 
Goode  has  begun  his  career  in  Henrico  court. 

Eiveredge,  25  Aug.,  1793. — ''My  place  of  abode  is  now  in  Williams- 
burg, where  I  attend  the  instructive  lectures  of  our  old  friend  'Sir. 
Tucker.  This  change  in  my  situation  was  occasioned  by  the  advice  of 
Mr.  Wythe.  ...  On  the  anniversary  of  American  Independence  I 
displayed  my  abilities,  whatever  they  were,  in  an  oration,  which  was 
approved  by  the  professors.  .  .  .  Eobert  Carter  and  Eobert  Taylor 
were  my  companions,  and  delivered  very  elegant  orations." 

Williamsburg,  13  Dec,  1793. — "  ...  a  worthy  young  man  by  the 
name  of  Williams,  one  of  our  students." 

JoHx  Coalter  to  His  Father,  :Mrcn.VEL  Coalter. 
Williamsburg,   24  Nov.,    1789. — "I  have  just  begun  to   attend   Mr. 
Wythe  on  Law.     .    .    .    The  exalted  character  and  tried  abilities  of  that 
Gentleman  promise  the  apt  and  dilligent  student  a  certain  and  noble 
source  of  instruction." 

The  following  letter  was  printed  in  Vol.  lY.,  p.  105,  but  it  is 
believed  T\ill  be  interesting  enough  in  this  connection  to  bear  re- 
printing. 


158  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

I.  A.  Coles  •  to  Henry  St.  George  Tucker.! 

Amherst,  July  20th,  1799. 
Dear  Friend, 

I  have  just  time  to  inform  you  that  I  exist.     It  is  now  pear  twelve 
&  I  shall  leave  this  early  in  the  morning,     I  spent  the  last  week  like  a  \ 

perfect  Hermit  shut  up  in  my  Room  without  one  single  soul  to  converse  I 

with.     Your  letter  came  very  apropos.     I  should  have  been  perfectly  \ 

melancholy.     Cabell  left  me  on  Monday  evening  last  for  the  Springs;  | 

his  Father  is  in  a  very  low  state  &  he  has  gone  to  take  care  of  him.    It  | 

will  probably  (be)  some  weeks  before  he  returns.    He  desires  me  to  offer  j 

this  as  his  excuse  for  not  writing.  \ 

I  am  happy  to  address  you  by  your  new  title  A.  B.,  as  I  am  convinced  .' 

it  will  be  serviceable  to  you.     It  will  serve  to  give  you  a  start  to  usher  \ 

you  into  public  life  &  you  will  know  well  enough  how  to  maintain  every  | 

such  ground  that  you  gain.     I  know  that  there  are  some  who  conceive  ^ 

that  degrees  are  prtjudicial  or  at  best  mere  baubles.     But  this  in  my 
opinion  can  never  be  the  case  unless  where  they  are  conferred  indiscrimi-  f 

nately  &  where  there  are  not  talents  to  support  them.    This  can  seldom  | 

happen  in  regular  degrees  &  it  is  of  regular  degrees  that  I  am  speaking.  f 

The  public  prints  are  filled  with  encomiums  on  your  noble  exhibition;  t  < 

it  really  affords  me  heartfelt  pleasure  to  hear  of  the  honours  my  Old  f 

Fellow  students  have  acquired,  &  of  the  gaining  or  rather  reviving  repu-  I 

tation  of  our  Alma  Mater.    I  think  seriously  that  the  present  exhibition  | 

will  operate  very  much  to  its  advantage.     Each  fond  Father  as  he  pe-  \ 

ruses  the  Eulogy  that  has  been  bestowed  on  you  will  imagine  him  a  | 

student,  &  of  course  an  orator.    He  hears  his  fame  in  like  manner  trans-  • 

ported  abroad.    He  listens  to  it  with  rapture.    This  is  too  fascinating  a  | 

picture  to  be  resisted.  | 

But  I  am  afraid,  Tiicker,  this  change  will  be  more  crradual  than  we  ' 

should  at  first  suppose.     The  tide  of  prejudice  runs  strong  against  it.  f 

A  parcell  of  Dam'd  fools  are  afraid  their  children  will  learn  to  Dance  j 

or  game  or  drink  &c  «ic.    I  have  been  half  vexed  all  of  my  life  with  such  i 

Boobys.    They  will  neither  listen  to  reason  or  be  persuaded.  | 

It  may  be  prejudice,  but  I  have  ever  thought,  &  still  think  that  Wil-  i 

liam  &  Mary  is  the  best  place  on  the  continent  for  the  education  of  young  | 

men.     I  will  not  say  Boys.  I 

If  they  do  not  acquire  more  knowledge  they  at  least  acquire  more  | 

liberality  &  more  ambition  than  at  any  other  place  in  the  world.    They  ,    | 

appear  at  once  to  discover  their  own  ignorance  &  the  immense  tract  that  \ 

they  have  to  traverse  before  they  arrive  at  eminence.     They  appear  to        «  | 

learn  merely  how  to  be  wise  &  retire  to  pursue  the  bare  &  laborious  plans  1 

. .^ I 

*  Isaac  A.  Coles,  A.  B.,  was  afterwards  Mr.  Jefferson's  private  secre-  ! 

tary.    He  was  son  of  Walter  Coles  and  ]Mary  Tucker.  I 

t  Son  of  Judge  St.  George  Tucker   (second  Professor  of  Law  in  Wil-  * 

liam  and  Mary) ,  member  of  Congress,  and  Professor  of  Law  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia,  father  of  the  late  John  Randolph  Tucker. 


Glimpses  of  Old  College  Life.  159 

of  study  which  they  have  chalked  out  for  themselves,  and  after  being 
buryed  for  five  or  six  years  we  see  them  enier<^e  from  their  hiding  places, 
&  shine  forth  with  a  splendor  that  dazzles  the  continent. 

We  have  only  to  look  around  us  to  see  instances.  I  would  quote 
Thompson,*  but  he  is  too  melancholy  an  instance.  But  to  come  down 
four  or  live  years  lower,  let  us  hunt  up  our  old  companions.  Are  they 
not  like  a  parcell  of  pismires? — even  more  industrious,  for  they  labor 
both  summer  &  winter,  &  during:  the  night  as  well  as  the  day.  ]Most  of 
our  illustrious  Heroes  &  patriots  have  been  educated  in  the  bosom  of 
our  much  loved  Mother.  The  names  of  Jefferson  &  Washington  *  will 
alone  suffice. 

I  do  not  know  whether  to  attribute  this  turn  in  the  great  mass  of 
the  students  of  W  &  M  College  to  our  peculiar  national  situation  or  to 
some  peculiarities  in  the  Institution  itself,  or  whether  indeed  it  may  not 
be  owing  to  mere  accident  from  an  impulse  which  they  may  have  re- 
ceived from  the  example  of  some  striking  &  popular  Genius.  This  last 
I  think  is  more  probably  the  correct  idea  especially  when  we  consider 
how  much  man  in  general  is  indebted  for  his  passions  &  character  to 
those  by  whom  he  is  surrounded. 

The  spirit  of  skepticism  which  so  much  prevailed  &  which  every  stu- 
dent acquired  as  soon  as  he  touched  the  threshhold  of  the  college  is  cer- 
tainly the  first  step  towards  knowledge;  it  puts  the  mind  in  a  proper 
state  not  only  to  receive,  but  also  to  receive  correctly.  That  it  leads  to 
Deism,  atheism  &c  I  will  acknowledge,  but  on  the  same  grounds  we  may 
object  to  reason.     Skepticism  indeed  only  gives  it  the  reins. f 

But  Tucker  I  shall  write  all  night  if  I  go  on  at  this  rate.  I  must  at 
least  vary  my  subject.    \\'hat  the  D — 1  has  become  of  Cooper?  $    I  have 

*  John  Thompson,  born  in  1777,  and  educated  at  William  and  Mary, 
was  deemed  in  his  day  a  prodigy  of  eloquence  and  genius.  He  died  at 
the  early  age  of  twenty-two,  but  his  speeches  at  the  bar  and  on  the 
stump,  and  his  letters  over  the  signature  of  Casca,  Gracchus  and  Curtius, 
attacking  the  policy  of  the  Federal  party,  had  drawn  upon  him  every 
€ye.  George  Hay,  the  celebrated  la\\yer,  who  wrote  a  sketch  of  him,  is 
unbounded  in  his  praise. 

*  Washington  never  attended  the  course  at  the  college,  but  he  stood 
an  examination  before  the  Faculty  for  a  surveyor's  commission,  and  this 
commission  was  equivalent  to  a  degree  in  engineering. 

t  The  study  of  the  natural  sciences  and  experimental  philosophy  was 
introduced  at  William  and  Mary  by  Dr.  William  Small,  of  Birmingham, 
England,  about  1756.  Governor  Fauquier  was  an  ardent  devotee,  and 
in  his  will  left  his  body  for  scientific  purposes.  Jefferson  was  brought 
up  under  this  influence,  and  even  James  ]Madison,  the  Bishop,  imbibed 
the  spirit.  Natural  philosophy  was  his  favorite  study.  William  and 
Mary  was  the  hot-bed  of  the  Republican  party,  with  its  doctrines  of 
freedom  in  thought  and  government,  which  ran  into  the  extreme  of 
skepticism  with  many. 

twills  Cooper,  A.  B.   (1799),  of  North  Carolina. 


160  WlLLIA]\I  AND  ]\[aRY  COLLEGE  QUARTERLY. 

not  heard  a  f^yllable  of  liim  since  I  left  ooUege.  Some  of  his  friends  were 
apprehensive  that  he  was  bhjtted  from  the  book  of  existence,  and  was  not 
the  doctrine  of  metempsychosis  abandoned  I  should  have  supposed  that 
he  had  become  a  bullfrog  or  a  catfish. 

I  apprehend  that  nctwithstanding  the  many  disadvantages  this  young 
man  labors  under  he  will  one  day  arrive  at  eminence.  Such  immense 
application  with  such  unbounded  ambition  must  raise  their  possessor 
much  above  the  common  mass  of  mankind. 

What  has  become  of  Burwell,*  Deans, t  Nimmo.t  and  our  old  friend 
Arthur  Zee.§  It  would  atrord  me  much  pleasure  to  hear  how  they  were 
travelling  on,  thro'  this  rugged  world.  I  heard  not  long  since  that 
Arthur  had  carried  his  Democratic  principles  so  far  as  to  make  the  com- 
mon mechanicks  &  apprentices  of  Norfolk  his  intimate  Friends,  &  that 
he  would  sometimes  attempt  to  declaim  in  this  *  *  *  etj.  How  very 
dangerous  it  is  for  Young  men  *  *  *  on  the  wide  theatre  of  the  world 
without  having  acquired  any  fixed  principles.  He  resembles  a  ship  in  a 
tempestuous  ocean  without  a  rudder. 

Tucker,  I  am  almost  asleep.  I  did  not  intend,  when  I  began,  to  write 
more  than  half  a  page  &  I  now  find  myself  almost  at  the  bottom  of  the 
3d.  I  never  know  when  to  stop,  wlien  I  am  writing  to  you.  I  shall  ex- 
pect to.  hear  from  you  shortly,  direct  to  Warren,  Albemarle.  I  expect  to 
leave  this  State  for  Kentucky  in  about  a  month,  but  I  will  write  you 
again  before  I  decamp. 

Farewell,  I.  A.  Coles. 

[To  he  continued.'] 


CEXSrS  OF  TITHABLES  IX  SUERY  COUNTY  IX  THE 

YEAR  16G8. 
Until  after  the  Revolution,  taxes  were  chiefly  imposed  in  Virginia 
according  to  the  number  of  the  tithables  in  each  county.  The  tithables 
consisted  of  all  male  natives  of  the  country  and  imported  free  persons 
above  sixteen;  and  all  male  white  servants,  and  all  female  white  servants 
who  worked  in  the  ground,  and  all  male  and  female  negro  and  Indian  ser- 
vants, whether  above  or  under  sixteen.  The  population  was  generally 
estimated  as  four  times  the  tithables.  Hence  the  population  of  Surry, 
judging  from  the  whole  number  of  tithables  (434),  was  about  1,736  per- 
sons i'n  IOCS.     Taxes  of  this  kind  were  not  as  unjust  in  principle  then 

*  Nathaniel  Burwell,  A.  B.  He  died  at  "Saratoga,"  his  residence  in 
Clarke  county,  Nov.  1.  1840,  in  his  seventy-first  year. 

t  Josiah  Deans,  A.  B.,  of  Gloucester  county. 

%  William  Thorowgood  Nimmo,  brother  of  the  late  Mrs.  Margaret  K. 
Ellis,  of  Richmond. 

§  Col.  Arthur  Lee,  commandant  of  the  Ninety-fifth  Regiment,  and  for 
several  years  a  member  of  the  Legislature;  died  in  Norfolk,  Jan.  12, 
1828,  in  his  forty-ninth  year. 


Census  of  Tithables  in  Surry  County. 


161 


as  now,  for  the  wealth  of  a  man  wa?i  for  the  most  part  measured  by  the 
number  of  his  family  and  dependents.  The  following  is  a  census  of 
tithables  for  Surry  county  during  tlie  year  1GG8.  According  to  this  it 
seems  that  the  number  of  small  planters  must  have  been  very  large. 
Even  Mr.  Arthur  Allen  had  but  eleven  in  his  family.  There  was  no  one 
else  who  had  over  eight,  except  Mr.  Thomas  Binns,  who  had  ten.  All 
at  Mr.  Warren's,  except  a  negro,  appear  to  have  been  free  persons  work- 
ing at  his  house  as  independent  tithables.*  There  must  have  been  at 
this  time  very  few  negroes  in  Surry  county. 

COMMISSIOX  OF  THE   PEACE,   DECEMBER  20,    IGGS. 

Lt.  Coll  George  Jordan,  Capt.  Lawrence  Baker,  Mr.  Arthur  Allen, 
Mr.  Thos  Warren,  Capt.  John  Grove,  Majr  William  Mariott,  Capt.  Wm 
Cockersham,t  Capt  Wm  Brown,  Mr  Tho  Binns,  Mr  Charles  Barham,  ^Ir 
Randall  Holt,  Mr  Thomas  Flood. 


THE  LIST  OF  LAWXES  CREEK 
Impr^  Cap*  Law :  Baker,    . .  08 

Kob*  Laine, 01 

Wm.  Hare, 02 

Ricli^  Harris,    05 

Geor   Corke,   01 

W°^  ChamV^ 03 

Micliaiel  Up  church, 01 

MMV^  Butler,    02 

M' Peter  Greene,    ., 03 

James  Eedicke, 03 

Rich^  Brigs,    04: 

John  Beasley,  03 

Jolm  Warrin,  02 

Cap'  Pitman,    0-1 

John  Clarke,  ..• 02 

Partrick  Bartley,   02 

John  Browne, 01 

Picn'^  Smith, 02 

John  Bineham,    01 

^lathow  Swann,   01 

Xpo'-  Holliman,    01 

Tho.  lillicroD, 02 


TYTHABLES  IN  ANNO  1668. 

Eobert  Gyjes,    01 

John  Gregory,    01 

Samuel  Cornewall, 04 

Tho.  Clay, 01 

Jolm  Blast,  . . . .  vv^v.  V .  ;:ur 

Pelcg  Dunston, 02 

Arthur  Long,   02 

John  Hunicut,   01 

Mr.  Charles  Barham, 04 

Tho.  Clary, 02 

Walter  Bartley,    04 

Wm.  Tooke, 03 

Timothy  Earwell, 02 

118 

Hen.  Bracrton, 01 

Cap*  W"^  Cockersham, 04 

:S\.ay  W"^  Caufield, 03 

Tho.  Smith,   02 

W"^  Pper, 02 

M'-  EoV  Caufield, 02 


*  1  infer  this  from  the  fact  that  the  names  of  tho  per.sona  at  his  house 
are  given. 

t  Capt.  William  Cockersham  died  in  lt'>G9,  leaving  two  sons,  William 
and  Thomas. 


162 


Willia:^!  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 


Richard  Jarratt, 0-1 

Rich*  Skinner,   04 

Harmon  Hill, 01 

Rich<^  Drew,    03 

M^  Arthur  Allen, 11 

BoV  Reynolds,   02 

Austin  Hunicat, 03 

The.  Taylor, 02 

Obedia  Pit, 02 

Roger  Delke, 01 

Francis  Reynolds, 02 

Tho.  Joanes, 02 

Amara  Dolores,    01 

]\PRan  Holt,    02 

M*"  John  Goring, 03 

James  ]Murrey,  01 

Nicholas  Craford, 01 

Edward  X apkin,    01 

Phillop  Oberry, 01 

W°^  Clarke,  ." 01 

W°^  Judson,    01 

Heniy  Clarke, 02 

Henry  Gord, 02 

Margrit  Cornish,   02 

Teste, 


"\Ym.  Seward, 02 

David  Williams, 04 

John  Kindred,    02 

W^^Hancocke,    02 

John  Philleps,    01 

Geo.  Watkin, 04 

Roger  Rawling.-, 03 

Tho.  Laine, , 02 

John  Hode, 02 

Henry  Lathrie, 01 

James  Kilpatrick, 02 

Tho.  Jarrell, 01 

W°^'Owlis, ; OG 

Capt  Grove, ....08 

M'-  Bushell, 04 

xilberte  Albatson, '.  .01 

Martin  Johnson, 01 

Edward  ^Yarren, 03 

Geo.  Petters, 01 

Edward  Tanner, 01 

Joseph  Rogers, 03 


83 


W^r.  COCKEESHAM. 


^P  John  Barker, 


A  list  of  y^  Tythables  in  South  Warke  p'ish  x\nno  1668  ffrom 
Coll.  Jordans  upwards  as  they  have  been  given  to  him  &  he  In- 
formed June  y^  10  1668. 

06       Geo.  Midleton,   01 

Ralph  Rachell,   01 

M--  Tho.  Clarke  saith  2,  his 

neighbors  saith,    03 

]\Iarmaduke  Beckwith,  ....  01 

Mathew  Rolfe,   01 

John  Rawlinsfer, 01 

M^  Barkers  Plantation,  ...01 
M^  Ben  Harrison 05 


W^  Shorte, 02 

Tho.  Stephens, 01 

Wm.  Heath,   02 

Tho.  Greene, 01 

M^  Tho.  Busby,   03 

Tho.  Bentley,   01 

Jerremy  Ellis,    01 

Henry  ftrancis, 03 

Richard  Rogers, 02 


li'  Hen  Brii 


,...02 


Census  of  Tit^ables  in  Surry  County.  163 

John  King,    01  M""  Xath  Kn*  w^^  Dick  and 

John  Legrand,   01       ;     Dankes,   03 

Wm.  Scarbrough, 01        M'"John  Cary, 04 

Eob^  Dennis, 01        M"-  Arthur  j'^ordan, 04 

Eob*  House, 02        Cap^  Tho.  fflood, 04 

M""-  W°^  Simmons, 06        L^  Coll.  Jordan, 03 

Eob''^  Carthrage, 04        John  Emerson, 01 

AV^  Xewit  and  Orchard,  .  .02        Michaell  Mischanny,   01 

John  Iiogers  &  Atkins,  ...  .02  Hezekiah  Bunell  saith  1,  his 

W"^  Carpenter,   02  Neighb",   02 

W  W°^  Eookings, 03       Ealph  Creed, 02 

ffran.  Howgood,  01  M""  Nicholas  Meriwether,  .  .06 

W  W°^  Xorwood, 02  •  '    "  •  

Joh:  Kippin,    02  ^                                          102 

Tho.  Hux, 02  .  

Ma-arice  Burchen,    01  Edw^  Ellis  &  M^  Moulson, 

HoV  Bnrges, 01  to  p'ish  Levy, 02 

Taken  by  Mr.  George  Jordan. 

A  List  of  Tj-thables  taken  by  me  subscribed  y«  10*^  June  1668. 
Coll.  Tho.  Swann  himself e  Mr  John  Salloway  &  3  sarvants, ...  05 

Eich*^  Case, 01 

Tho.  Gray, 01 

if rancis  Gray,  01 

AY°^  'Spring, 01 

Tho.  Chews  &  Tho  AYicks, 02 

John  Bird  &  his  Mann,  * 01 

W^  Eose  &  Edw^  Hale, 02 

Cap*  W""  Browne, 05 

Tho.  Eorsterait  &  Kite,    02 

John  horning  W'"^  Batt, 02 

Sam^  !}>lagget,  01 

-Tho.  Sowersby, 01 

-  •  John  Collver, 01 

-  Fran.  Sorsby,  Pace  &  sarv^ 03 

Henry  Foreman,   , 01 

Wm  Foreman,    01 

M'"  Barth  Owen,  Edward  Joanes, 02 

Tho.  Andrews,   01 

Xopher  Lewis  Eog^  AY'^s,  2  Sarrts, 04 


164  William  a-n^d  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

Hog^  Potter,   01 

Joh.  Harlow,  Edw.  March,  W"^  Hux  &  W"^  Mills, 04 

William  Browne.  43 

A  List  of  Tythables  taken  y«  11*^  June  1668, 

John  Brady  &  three  men, 04 

Antho.  Spilltimber  &  2  Men, 03 

Tho.  Ironmonger,    01 

Maj'-  W°^  Marriott  &  4  sarv^% 05 

Luke  Mizell  &  Mate,  02 

Christo.  Yaughan^s  Sonn, 01 

Ellis  Vantse, 01 

Capt  Corker, 05 

Daniel  Regan,    01 

W"  Marriott.  .  23 

A  List  of  y®  Tythables  from  y®  Colledge  to  Smiths  forte  taken 
y«  10*^  of  June  1668  by  M^  Tho.  Warren : 

Timothy  Walker,  John  Whit  son  &  one  negro, 03 

M'-  Binns,   10 

Cornelius  Cardenpaine, 01 

Andrew  Eobinson,  03 

Eichard  Joanes,   01 

M--  Thompson, 02 

Sam.  Place,  Antho.  Evens, 02 

M'"  Robert  Spencer,  Harebottle  W"s,  francis  davis,  W™  Winter, 

Tho.  Sand",  Jonas  Bennet, 06 

'M''  Mathias  Marriott  Tho.  Causby,  Joh.  Booth  &  1  negro, 04 

M'"  Pitway,  Law.  Peach,  Edw  Ramsey,  Jarratt  Greene,  Walt,  .  05 

Tho.  Hurle  Joh.  Siiipp  Tho  Gibson  &  1  negro, 04 

Geo.  Foster  &  Tho.  Williams, 02 

Tho.  ^orth,    01 

John  Clemens,  01 

Edmond  Howell,   01 

James  Furbush,   01 

M"-  Tho.  Warren  W™  Warren,  W"  Hill,  vinsent  Suttleworth, 
Hen.    Applcwhait,    James    Xibley,    W"'    Howell,    Robert- 

Ewens,  1  Xegro, 09 

John  Skinner, 01 

57 


Indian  Sla\'es.  165 

IXDIAX  SLAVES. 

As  further  proof  that  Hcning  is  wrong  in  his  idea  that  Bacon 
was  the  first  to  make  slaves  of  the  Indians  (see  Plening's  Statutes 
at  Large  of  Virginia^  Vol.  II.,  Preface)  I  adduce  the  following 
correspondence,  extracted  from  the  records  of  Old  Ilappahannock 
county.  The  first  is  a  letter,  about  18G8,  from  Gov.  Berkeley  to 
Major  General  Eobert  Smith,  who  commanded  the  militia  in  the 
district  of  which  Eappahannock  county  was  a  part.  The  second 
is  a  letter  from  the  justices  of  Eappahannock  to  General  Smith, 
who  submitted  Berkeley's  instructions  to  the  court  for  approval. 
(See  Quarterly,  VI.,  p.  214.) 

Sir,  I  wrote  my  first  Lettr  to  you  in  haste  the  moment  I  ree<J  yours, 
but  since  I  have  collected  myselfe  I  thinke  it  is  neces.sary  to  Destroy  all 
these  Northern  Indians  for  they  must  needs  be  conscious  of  the  coming 
of  the  other  Indians.  Twill  be  a  great  Terror  and  exemple  and  Instruc- 
tion to  all  other  Indians. 

If  ye  Councell  here  and  the  Councell  of  Warr  be  of  this  opinion  it 
may  be  done  without  charge  for  the  women  and  children  will  Defray  it., 
lett  me  heare  from  \^  wt  yu  thinke  of  it  and  if  the  first  impulse  of  or 
first  resentment  doe  not  Deceive  me  and  Leade  me  too  much  I  thinke  this 
Resolution  to  be  of  absolute  necessity;  if  yr  young  men  will  not  under- 
take it  alone,  there  will  be  enou  from  hence  will  undertake  it  for  their 
share  of  the  Booty. 

Your  most  Aff"ectionate  Humble  servant,  WnxiAir  Bekkeley. 

To  my  most  Honor'd  Friend  Majr  GenU  Smyth.  These — Hast  Post 
Hast  for  the  service  of  his  Mtie  and  the  Country. 


Honbie  Sr. 

Uppon  Serious  Consideracon  of  the  Honbie  Governrs  Letters  and  yr 
Honors  desire  or  opinion  of  them  wee  are  by  many  circumstances  con- 
vinced and  tis  or  opinion  that  the  Late  Execrable  murders  are  and  have 
bin  committed  by  a  combination  of  our  Xorthern  Indians  prticularly  the 
Doagges  conjunct  -svith  our  neigliboring  Indians  above,  all  web  with  their 
complices  wee  doubt  not  wth  assistance  of  Almighty  God  by  the  strength 
of  or  Northern  Part  utterly  to  Destroy  and  eradicate  wtbout  Further 
Incroachment  then  the  Spoyles  of  or  Enymies. 

JoH^-  Catlett,  Tho.    Goodrich, 

JoHx  Weuie,  Huii  Booth. 


JUSTICES  FOR  SUERY  COUXTY. 

{Appointed  at  the  surrender  in  lGr);3.) 
30  xipril  1G52. 
Persons  nominated  by  the  Com"  of  Parliament  and  State  of 
England  to  be  Coni'^  for  the  severall  county  courts. 
Viz  for  Surrev  countv  &c. 


j 

166  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  | 

'i 

Coll.  Ju°  fflood  Lieut  Coll.  Thomas  Swann  ^lajor  Piobert  Shep- 
ard  Cap*  Wm.  Butler  M""  Lawrence  Baker  'M.^  Arthur  Allen  Cap'^ 
George  Jordan  Cap*  Ben.  Sideway  M""  W""  Batt  Mr.  George 
Stephens  M"^  James  Taylor  M""  Thomas  Warren  and  M""  Wm 
Thomas.  /  f 

•   Persons  nominated  for  y®  militia.    Yizt  Surrey  Countye.  * 

Coll.  Jn°.  fflood  Lout.  Collo.  Tho.  Swann  Major  Eobert  Shep- 
ard  Capt  W'"  Butler  Mr.  Lawrence  Baker  and  M'"  Wm.  Thomas. 


ACCOUNTS  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 

The  following  exhibits  the  iirst  accounts  of  the  college  down  to 
April  IQ,  1697.  These  accounts  were  enclosed  in  a  letter* 
addressed  to  Governor  Andros  by  the  ''Governors  and  Visitors'' 
appointed  by  the  charter,  and  by  Andros  they  were  sent  to  Eng- 
land, where  the  originals  still  rest  in  the  public  archives.  The 
receipts  consisted  of  £1,983  143.  lOd.,  contributed  by  their  Majes- 
ties William  and  Mary  out  of  the  quit-rents  of  the  colony,  and  at 
that  time  in  the  hands  of  William  Byrd;  £300  representing 
money  obtained  from  the  pirates  Davies,  Hinson  and  Delawaier,f 
voluntary  donations  to  the  exent  of  £897  3s.  Gd.,  money  coUecred 
from  the  grant  in  the  charter  of  the  penny  per  pound  duty  on 
all  tobacco  exported  from  Virginia  and  ^larsdand,  amounting  to 
£p01  6s.  4Jd.,  and  the  tax  on  skins  and  furs  voted  by  the  Vir- 
ginia Legislature,  which  netted  £251  5d.  The  whole  on  hand  at 
the  time  of  the  report  from  these  different  sources  made  £4,033 
Cs.  Id.  The  salaries  of  the  president  and  grammar  master  were 
chargeable  against  only  the  last  two  funds,  and  so  appear  in  a 
paper  separate  from  the  general  account. 

Of  course,  the  donations  were  only  a  small  part  of  what  was 
actuailly  subscribed  by  private  persons  and  was  afterwards  paid 
in.  ' 

As  appears  from  the  letter  to  Governor  Andros,  only  the  front 
and  one  wing  had  been  raised  to  the  roof,  which  had  yet  to  be  put 
on.  So  that  the  expenditures  represent  only  a  part  of  the  final 
cost. 

As  appears  from  Dr.  Blair's  statement,  the  work  was  conducted 

•Published  in  Qu.vjiterly,  VII.,  pp.  171-173, 
t  See  order  of  the  king  in  council,  Ihid.,  p.  IGO. 


Accounts  of  the  College.  167 

under  the  supervision  of  a  committee  consisting  of  tlie  rector 
and  five  or  six  of  the  Board  of  Governors.* 

Mr.  Thomas  Hadlcy,  who  came  from  England,  was  the  sur- 
veyor of  the  building,  and  had  the  daily  ordering  of  things. 

The  bricks  were  made  on  the  spot  by  Col.  Daniel  Parke,  of  the 
Council,  who  received  14s.  a  thousand  for  thein.f 

It  must  be  remembered  that  money  was  three  or  four  times 
dearer  in  1696  than  it  is  now,  so  that  ^Ir.  Jerferson's  estimate  of 
the  cost  of  erecting  the  main  building,  front  and  tv.'o  wings, 
$162,000,  was  probably  not  far  from  correct.  (See  Cabell  and 
Jefferson  Correspondence.) 

Building  Account. 

Board  of  Trade,  Virginia.    Vol.  G.  '    ' 

t 

The  College  of  William  «i  ^lary  is  Dr. 
1694.                                                                                                 £.  s.  d. 
To  Acct  of  Stores  from  Mr  Perry  &  Compa  in  anno  1092,  ...  141  18  11 
To  advancd  to  workmen  &  other  necessary  disbiirsnits  in  Eng- 
land paid  Mr  Blair  as  ^7  his  accot  lltb  febry  1G04, 13  12  03 

To  necessary  disbursmts  in  Virga  as  drawing  deeds  for  land 
Messages  &  briekmakers  wages  as  ^  the  Said  ]\Ir  Blairs 

Accot, 13  17  00 

To  dyett  for  workmen  Soc.eys  Fees  &.  other  Small  disbursmts 

as  %1  Mr  Blairs  Accot  ye  9th  June  1G9G, IG  13  01 

To  Capt  Thomas  Ballard  for  330  acres  of  land  whereon  ya 

Colledge  is  built, 170  00  00 

To  Collo  Parke  for  Bricks  at  14s  ^r")  m, 547  07  00 

To  Wm  Chiphead  for  Paveing  Stone  bought  of  Capt  Tregian,  115  14  07 

To  Clerks  Sallary,    40  00  00 

To  Collo  Wm  Brown  for  repairing  ye  School  house, 45  00  00 

To  Accot  of  Stores  from  Mr  Perry  •ico  in  anno  1G94, 243  07  10 

Octr  19tii  1695. 

To  paid  labourers,   39  19  00 

To  paid  Workmens  dyett,  13  09  00 

To  paid  Water  Carriages  &  Messages,   00  11  00 

To  paid  Cartridge,   17  00  00 

To  paid  for  three  Cart  horses  one  feather  bed  Some  Neces- 

sarie  tooles  for  ye  use  of  ye  Colledge, 39  17  05 

To   paid  bricklayrs,    25  00  09 

*  Francis  Nicholson,  in  spite  of  his  eccentricities,  was  very  friendly 
to  education  and  contributed  liberally  to  the  college.  But  Andros.  it 
appears,  contributed  nothing,  and  by  his  ill  example  caused  many  of  the 
subscribers  to  be  very  slow  in  paying  up.  Some  indeed  were  sued  in  the 
county  and  general  courts. 

t  See  Perry's  Historical  CoUcctions,  Virginia,  p.  ^Q. 


'O^i 


07 

10 

02 

00 

05 

07 

10 

00 

11 

00 

15 

00 

18 

00 

05 

05 

168  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

£. 

To  paid  for  Shells, 34 

To  paid  for  Sawyrs  work, 06 

Apii  21th  1G9G. 

To  paid  Labourers, 35 

To  paid  for  Shells,    08 

To  paid  for  provisions,   37 

To  paid  for  Severall  Small  necessaries  for  the  Use  of  the 

Colledge,   07 

To  paid  for  Cartridge,    05 

To  paid  for  Dyett,   16 

To  ye  Sallary  to  y^  Survey  &;  writing  master  and  wages  to 

bricklayers,    73     00     00 

May  4th  1G96. 

To   paid  Labourers, Ill 

To  paid  for  :Me35ages,   ' 00 

To   paid   Carpenters,    25 

To  paid  for  Dyett, 02 

To  paid  for  Corn, 09 

To  paid  Sawyers,   43 

To  paid  for  rubbing  Stones, 01 

To  paid  for  Dutch  Collars,    00 

To  paid  for  two  hogsheads, 00 

To   Cartridge,    05 

To  Cash  advancd  to  Robt  Harrison  ye  Carpenter, 20 

To  Mr  James  Sherlock  for  Copys  10  Ordrs  of  Councill, 02 

June  9th  1G9C. 

To  paid  Labourers, 30 

To  'paid  the  Surveys  Salary, 25 

To  paid  for  Shells, 26 

To  paid  Bricklayers, 24 

To  paid  for  a  Horse  &  some  Small  necessaries, 04 

To  Cartridge, 02 


02 

00 

08 

00 

01 

09 

15 

03 

14 

00 

10 

03 

01 

00 

12 

00 

06 

00 

05 

00 

00 

00 

10 

00 

09 

01 

00 

00 

13 

07 

01 

10 

12 

06 

12 

02 

2043     18     04 

■  To. 

f.  s.      d. 

To  brought  from  ye  other  Side, 2043  18     04 

To  paid  Sawyers,    42  02     09 

Augst  26th  1096. 

To  paid  Labourers,    70  13     05 

To  paid  for  Shells, ' 71  14     00 

To  paid  for  Cartridge, 13  18     03 

To  paid  Sawyers,   45  14     00 

To  paid  bricklayers, 27  07     06 

To  Cash  advancd  to  Robt  Harrison  the  Carpenter, 40  00     00 


Accounts  of  the  College.  169 

£.  8.      d. 

To  paid  for  levies  for  2  hired  bricklayers, 00  08  02 

To   brickmoulds,    00  10  OG 

To  paid  for  Cartwheeles,    02  00  00 

To  paid  for  one  hogshead  &  two  Spades, 00  15  00 

To  Forridge  paid,   00  02  00 

Xbr  18th  1G96. 

To  paid  Labourers, 190  17  liy^ 

To  paid  for  bricks,   41  00  O914 

To  paid  for  Shells, 27  18  041/2 

To  paid  Sallarv  to  ye  Surveyr  Clerk  &  Surveyr, 200  00  00 

To  Cash  advancd  to  ye  Carpenter, GO  00  00 

To  paid  Sawyers  work,   218  02  073^ 

To  paid  bricklayers,   120  03  llVa 

To  paid  for  brick  moulds, 00  09  06 

To  paid  for  Cart  wheeles, ' 02  •  00  00 

To  paid  Forridg  &  horse  hire, 00  05  00 

To  paid  for  one  Paile  &  3  bed  Cords, , 00  OS  06 

To  paid  for  fodder, 01  02  00 

To  paid  Cartridge, 08  01  00 

To  paid  for  Corn,   11  00  00 

febry  27tii  lG9G-'7. 

To  paid  for  tarr, 10  10  10 

To  paid  for  drum  lines, 00  10  06 

To  paid  Labourers,    16  15  071/2 

To  advancd  to  ye  Carpenters  by  bills  of  Excha, 100  00  00 

To  Richd  Savage,    05  08  09 

To  books  Mapps  &  papers  as  ^  Accot, 32  11  10 

To  the  Seal  of  the  CoUedge, 45  02  00 

To  Mr  Richd  Savage, 22  00  00 

To  advancd  to  Thomas  Hadley  in  England, 40  00  00 

To  Geo.  Cryer  &  Samii  Baker  bricklayers, 22  00  00 

To  paid  Mr  Perry  for  Postidge  of  Letters, 00  >  05  05 

To  advancd  to  severall  workmen  in  England  ^  Mr  Perrys 

Accot,     137  00  00 

To  paid  M"  Mullikin  Usher, 25  00  00 

To  paid  Mr  Ingles  School  master, 30  00  00 

To  paid  for  Contracts  wtb  workmen, 00  18  00 

To  2  bricklayers  passages, 14  05  00 

15  Apii  1697. 

To  Shingles,   45  14  03 

To    Cartridge, 47  16  10 

To  Sawyers  worke, .' 52  10  00 

3889  01  10 

Pr  Contra.                                                                               f .  s.      d. 

By  their  Maj^  Guift, 19S3     14     10 

By  Severall  Donations  in  hands  of  the  Treasurer,   509     00     00 


00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

10 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

02 

00 

11 

00 

170  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

£.  3.        (1. 

By  money  obtained  of  the  Privateers, 300     00     00 

By  Mr  Blair  for  20ii  reccid  of  Pococke  20"  Errour  in  Mr 

Perrys  accot,    40     00     00 

By  Severall  Donations  in  the  hands  of  Mr  Perry  &c  Vizt, 

By  Mr  Patrick  Smith, ^  OG 

My  ;Mr  Micajah  Perry,   I  50 

By  Mr  Thomas  Lane, 50 

By  Mr  Richd  Perry  'r^  George  Richards, [  50 

By  a  Guinea  of  Jeffery  Jefferys  Esq  to  buy  Bloomes 

History  of  the  Bible,   J  01 

By  the  Governrs  of  :Marylands  Excha, 100 

By  Collo  Ludwells  Donation,   40 

By  Mr  Fouace  Donation, 10 

By  Mr  Edwards  in  Cash  for  tobacco,   01 

By  provision  of  the  becfe  ^  purveyr, 37 

31S0     18     Oi 

Cr. 
Cr.  f.         S.       d. 

^  brought  from  the  other  Side, 3180     IS     04 

^  ballance  of  ye  Accot  of  revenue, 537     15     OS^/x 

3718     13     07-14 
Eemaincs  due  to  ball  this  aco*,  170     OS     O2V4 

3889     01     10 
Vera  Copia  Era.  CLEiiEXTS  Ck  Coll. 

The  Colledge  Revenue  is  Dr 

£.       3.      d. 
To  bills  paid  to  Mr  President  Blair  in  Colle  Byrds  accot  for 
one  year  &  a  halfe   Sallary  preceeding — march   1694- '5 
ye  first  year  at  one  hundred  pounds  afterwards  at  one 

hundred  &  fifty  ^>  anum — according  to  Order, 175 

To  bills  in  Coll  Ilyrds  accot  to  Mr  ^longo  Ingles, 70 

To  Ditto  in  ^Mr  Perry's  accot  being  for  one  year  &  a  half  Sal- 
lary at  80ii  ^  anm  as  before, 50 

To  paid  Mr  Craddock,   10 

To  Mr  Benjn  Harrison  for  y*  Charge  of  laying  out  ye  tenn 
thousand  acres  of  land  on  the  South  Side  black  water 
Swamp,     09     11     00^ 

314     11     Oa 


00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

oo' 

00 

po 

Accounts  of  the  College.  171 

£.      3.     d. 
To  ye  ballance  of  this  accot  of  ye  Revenue,  carried  to  accot 

Creditt  of  ye  building,    537     15     Oa 

852     06     01> 
Pr.  Contra.  Cr  ti 

1G95,  5  June-25  Octr. 

By  Coll  Jennings  accot  of  furrs  &  skinns  in  1G95, 03     06     07 

By  Collo  Hills  Ditto, 210     OS     03 

By  Collo  Lear  Ditto,   37     05     07 

By  Collo  Hill  on  ye  Penny  ^  pound, 89     09     09 

By  Coll  Lear  Ditto,   100     15     00% 

By  Maryland  as  '^  Mr  Perrys  accot  Vizt; 

On  Mr  Peter  Pagan, 164     04     00 

Ditto  on  Dauy  Donnys, 40     00     00 

Ditto  pd  in  Cash  as  "^  Mr  Blairs  accot, 03     18     04 

Ditto  for  ye  year  1G96. 

£.       s.      d. 

By  James  Bro^vnes  Excha, 08     11     00 

By  Geo.  Muschamp  Excha,   .09     00     00 

By  Geo.  Plater's  Excha, GO     00     00 

By  Ditto  Excha, 77     02     09 

—    —     —154     13     09 
Ditto  ^  Geo.  Muschamp  Exchange,  48     05     00 


852     06     093,^ 

Endorsed.       Virginia      E 

The  Colledge  Wm  &  Mary's 

Acct  Transmitted  by  Sr 

Edm.  Andros  the  22tii  April  1697. 

•Rec^  21tii  June    )  ,  p,,- 
_  C  169/. 

Bead  20tii  Augt    C 

Ented.  fol.  58. 


FEANCIS  FAUQUIER'S  WILL. 
Francis  Fauquier  was  the  eldest  son  of  Dr.  John  Francis  Fau- 
quier and  Elizabeth  Chamberlayne  his  wife.  He  was  born  in 
1704,  made  a  director  in  the  South  Sea  Company  in  1751,  and  a 
Fellow  of  the  Eoyal  Society  on  February  15,  1753.  He  married 
Catherine,  daughter  of  Sir  Charles  Dalston,  who  was  buried  at 
Totteridge  in  1781.  He  wrote  an  essay  on  ^'The  Ways  and 
Means  of  Raising  Money  for  the  Support  of  the  Present  War 
Without  Increasing  the  Public  Debt."  Svo,  published  at  London 
in  1757.    On  January,  1758,  he  was  appointed  Lieut.  Governor 


172  William  and  Mary  College  Quaeterly. 

of  Virginia.  In  17G0,  Mr.  Pitt  wrote  to  Fauquier  that  when  the 
war  with  the  French  was  over,  Parliament  would  tax  the  colonies. 
Fauquier  in  reply  expressed  great  apprehensions.  Fauquier  was 
still  governor  w^hen  the  Stamp  Act  passed,  and  that. measure  was 
excessively  distasteful  to  him;  hut  Henry's  resolutions  went  too 
far  for  him,  and  received  his  censure. 

His  popular  disposition  was  shown,  however,  in  his  conduct 
during  the  agitations  produced  by  the  Parsons'  causes.  He  gave 
them  to  understand  that,  law  or  no  law,  he  was  unequivocally  on 
the  popular  side. 

The  explanation  of  this  sympathetic  attitude  of  Fauquier  is 
to  be  found  in  his  devotion  to  scientific  studies,  which  were  an- 
tagonistic to  dogmas  of  all  kinds — religious  or  governmental. 
He  delighted  in  the  company  of  Dr.  William  Small,  the  professor 
of  jS'atural  Philosophy  at  William  and  Mary,  and  at  his  table  the 
youthful  Jefferson,  Page,  Walker,  i\IcClurg  and  others  of  the  Vir- 
ginia youth  learned  their  lessons  in  the  rights  of  man.  His  ex- 
ample in  another  respect  was  not  so  fortunate.  He  was  addicted 
to  gaming,  and  diffused  in  the  colony  a  passion  for  playing  cards, 
which  continued  till  sternly  rebuked  by  the  revolutionary  spirit, 
finding  utterance  in  the  orders  of  the  county  committees  of  safety 
about  1775. 

There  are  in  the  British  Museum  nine  letters  written  by  Fau- 
quier between  1759  and  17G4,  chiefly  respecting  the  military 
forces  of  Virginia,  and  one  to  Sir  Henry  Moore,  dated  February 
3,  1766.  He  WTote  an  article  on  "Hailstones,"  observed  in  Vir- 
ginia July  9,  1758,  w^iich  was  read  by  his  brother  William  before 
the  Eoyal  Society  after  his  death.* 

He  died  in  Virginia  March  3,  1768.  The  following  is  taken 
from  the  Virginia  Gazette,  edited  by  Purdie  and  Dixon: 

WiLLiAMSBUEG,  March  3. 

Early  this  morning  died  at  the  Palace  after  a  tedious  illnesa,  which 

he  bore  with  the  greatest  patience  and  fortitude,  the  Hon.  Francis  Fau- 

QUIEK,  Esq.,  Lieutenant  Governor  and  Commander  in  Chief  of  this  Col, 

ony,  over  which  he  has  presided  near  ten  years,  much  to  his  own  honour, 

*  See  Lyson's  Environs  of  London,  IV.,  40G;  Genealogical  Table,  in 
possession  of  G.  B.  Wollaston,  Chislehurst,  Clutterbuck,  Hertfordshire, 
Court  and  City  Register;  Thomson's  History  of  the  Royal  Society: 
Gentleman's  Magazine,  XXVIII.,  p.  40,  XXXVIII.,  199;  Xational  Dic- 
tionary of  Biography,  article  ''Francis  Fauquier." 


Fraxcis  Fauquier's  Will.  173 

and  the  care  and  satisfaction  of  the  inhabitants.  He  was  a  Gentleman 
of  most  amiable  disposition — generous,  just  and  mild;  and  possessed,  in 
an  eminent  degree,  of  all  the  social  virtues.  He  was  a  Fellow  of  the 
Royal  Society,  and  died  in  his  si.xty-fifth  year. 

The  Following  from  the  other  Virginia  Gazette  by  William 
Eind  is  an  account  of  the  funeral  services : 

Williamsburg,  March  10  (1708). 
Last  Tuesday  the  remains  of  our  late  Governor  the  Hon.  Frc^ncis 
Fauquier  Esq.  were  interred  in  the  North  isle  of  the  church  in  this  City. 
The  Hon.  the  President  and  sucli  members  of  his  Majestys  Council  as 
lived  convenient,  the  Hon.  Mr.  Speaker,  the  treasurer,  his  Majestys  Attor- 
ney General  and  all  the  principal  Gentlemen  of  this  place  and  neighbor- 
hood assisted  in  paying  the  last  offices  to  the  deceased  sincerely  lament- 
ing the  loss  of  a  ruler  who  had  endeared  himself  to  them.  The  Militia 
of  this  City  also  attended  and  paid  the  honours  due  to  his  memory  upon 
this  melancholy  occasion. 

In  the  same  issue  an  admirer  thus  speaks  in  his  praise : 

To  the  memory  of  the  Hon.  Francis  Fauquier  Esq.  late  lieutenant- 
Governor  of  this  Colony;  a  man  who  in  public  life  was  equalled  by 
few  and  in  his  private  character  excelled  by  none,  who  in  spite  of  a  lin- 
gering illness  and  the  severest  attacks  of  the  most  excruciating  pain 
submitted  to  the  relentless  hand  of  death  with  a  fortitude  and  resigna- 
tion known  to  but  few  in  the  evening  hours  of  departing  life;  this  little 
monument  is  addressed  by  one  whose  bosom  retains  the  highest  sense  of 
those  virtues  possessed  by  that  w^orthy  Gentleman  in  so  eminent  a  degree 
as  to  make  him  still  live  in  the  bleeding  remembrance  of  a  numerous  ac- 
quaintance and  to  raise  a  monument  in  his  eountrys  bosom  which  is 
out  of  the  power  of  censure  to  deface. 

"  If  ever  virtue  lost  a  friend  sincere, 
If  ever  sorrow  claim'd  Virginia's  tear. 
If  ever  death  a  noble  conquest  made, 
'Twas  when  Fauquier  the  debt  of  nature  paid." 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  book  at  Yorktown  in  which  his 
will  is  recorded  is  badly  moth-eaten,  but  as  far  as  I  was  able  to 
make  it  out,  the  will  runs  as  follows : 

Will  of  Hex.  Francis  Fauquier. 

In  the  na God  Amen,  I  Francis  Fauquier  his  Majesty's  L 

ernor  and  commander  in  chief  of  the  colony  and for  the  time 

being,  now  in  good  Health  and ound  mind of  the  uncertainty 

of H vidence  of  making  my  will  known  to  the this  my 

last  will  and  Testament,  in  manner  and  form  following.    That  is  to  sav. 


174  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

The  immortal  part  of  me  must  return  into  the  Hands  of  a  most  ^Merciful 
and  benevolent  God,  who  I  hope  will  extend  His  IMercies  to  an  unprofita- 
ble servant.  As  for  the  uninformed  Mass  of  Clay  which  will  remain 
after  life,  in  whatever  that  life  consists,  is  departed  from  it,  my  express 
will  and  Desire  is,  that,  if  it  should  please  the  Almighty  God  to  take  me 
off  from  this  stage  by  any  latent  disease,  with  the  Cause  of  which  the 
Physicians  or  Surgeons  who  may  attend  upon  me  in  my  last  Illness,  may 
not  be  well  acquainted,  my  Body  should  be  opened  if  they  desire  it,  that 
the  immediate  cause  of  my  disorder  may  be  kno\^'n,  and  that  by  these 
means  I  may  become  more  useful  to  my  fellow  Creatures  by  my  Death 
than  I  have  been  in  my  life.  I  insist  this  and  make  it  part  of  this  my 
last  Will  to  take  away  any  the  least  imputation  of  want  of  decency  or 
respect  in  my  dear  wife  or  children  or  other  Friends  I  may  leave  behind 
me  for  permitting  the  enquiry  to  be  made  on  my  unfeeling  Carcass  for 
the  good  of  Mankind.  After  this  examination  of  my  Body,  if  necessary, 
I  will  that  it  be  Deposited  in  the  Earth  or  Sea  as  I  shall  happen  to  fall, 
without  any  vain  Funeral  Pomp  and  as  little  expence  as  Decency  can 
possibly  permit.  Funeral  Obsequies  as  it  has  long  appeared  to  me  being 
contrary  to  the  Spirit  of  the  Religion  of  our  Blessed  Saviour,  who  on  a 
proper  occasion  said,  Let  the  Dead  bury  their  Dead,  follow  thou  me. 

As  to  the  Disposal  of  my  Worldly  Goods,  I  find  I  shall  be  at  a  diffi- 
culty to  express  myself  in  a  manner  to  prevent  disputes  so  as  to  have 

my  intention   (ta)ke  place,  owing  to  some  particularities  in  my  . 

But  as  my  whole  Estate  both  real  and  Personal,  some es  ex- 
cepted will  be  divided  between  my  dear  .  s  I  hope  they  will 

,  have  so  much  Eespect to  the  Duties  they  reciprocally  owe 

between  themselves sue ng  to  the  Spirit  not  the  Letter  of  the 

Words  made  Use  of  by  me  on  this  occasion  if  such  meaning  can  be  found 
,out,  but  in  case  they  should  disagree,  my  Will  is  that  they  should  refer 
their  Disputes  to,  and  abide  by  the  Determination  of  the  Honbie  William 
Kelson,  the  Honbie  Robert  Carter  two  of  his  Majesty's  Council  of  Vir- 
ginia, the  Honbie  Peyton  Randolph  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Burgesses 
there  and  George  Wythe  Esq",  if  they  should  be  in  Virginia  at  the  time 
of  my  Death,  and  if  they  should  be  in  Great  Britain  of  the  Right  Hon^ie 
Gabriel  Lord  Coleraine,  my  Brother  William  Fauquier,  my  brother-in- 
law  Francis  Wollaston  and  James  Burrowe  Master  of  the  Crown  Office 
Esqf.  in  whose  Integrity,  Abilities,  and  personal  affection  to  me,  I  have 
always  had  the  greatest  reason  to  place  the  fullest  confidence;  or  in  any 
three  of  them  or  the  Majority  of  such  three. 

\\Tiereas  there  is  a  Deed  of  Trust  made  when  I  was  appointed  Lieu- 
tenant Governor  of  Virginia  now  subsisting;  by  which  Deed  my  whole 
Estate  both  real  and  Personal  in  the  Kingdom  of  Great  Britain  was  con- 
veyed to  the  Trustees  for  sundry  purposes  therein  mentioned  and  vested 
in  them  as  will  now  fully  appear  reference  to  the  said  Deed  being  had; 
by  which  Deed  a  Division  of  my  Estate  was  made  between  my  Wife  and 
children  in  case  I  should  die  Intestate,  but  which  I  had  power  to  alter  by 
my  last  Will  and  Testament  or  other  Deed  in  Writing  legally  and  prop- 
erly executed  by  me;   now  be  it  known  that  I  am  so  far  from  disapprov- 


Francis  Fauquiep/s  Will.  175 

ing  the  distribution  therein  made  that  I  do  hereby  and  confirm  it 

in  its  full  force  and  power  as  far  as  it which  is  to  the  whole  Estate 

real  and  personal  to  which  at  the  time  of  the  date  thereof  I  had  my 
Kight m  either  in  possession  or  Revision  And  I  do  hereby  consti- 
tute and  appoint  my  Eldest  son  Francis  Fau(quier)    — le  executor  of 

this  my  last  will  and  Testament  to  any  Estate  or  Estates  I  may 

die  ' and  of  Great  Britain  and  no  further  this  not  out  of  any 

Mistrust  of  the  uprightness  of  Heart  or  prudence  of  conduct  of  my  wife 
or  younge  son  William,  but  because  I  am  possessed  of  a  Kight  of  Pre- 
sentation of  two  turns  out  of  three  to  a  small  living  in  the  county  of 
Warwick  in  that  part  of  Great  Britain  called  England,  which  by  act  of 
Parliament  which  first  erected  the  parish  does  not  Descend  to  my  Heirs 
but  to  my  Executors,  adm'ors  or  as.signs,  and  I  think  this  the  likeliest 
way  to  preserve  it  in  my  Family  without  dispute  which  I  earnestly  de- 
sire may  be  done  by  My  Son,  and  that  he  would  always  be  provided  with 
a  will,  by  which  he  may  secure  the  right  of  Presentation  to  such  person 
as  he  shall  choose  for  an  Executor.  The  living,  tho'  small,  affording 
Bread  for  any  younger  Branch  of  my  Descendants. 

And  whereas  I  am  possessed  of  sundry  small  Parcels  of  Land,  slaves 
and  other  Effects  in  the  Colony  and  Dominion  of  Virginia  not  included 
in  aforesaid  Deed  of  Trust  I  dispose  of  them  in  the  manner  following. 
I  will  that  all  my  lands  Slaves  and  other  Effects  whatsoever  be  disposed 
by  my  Executors  hereafter  to  be  named  for  this  part  of  my  Estate  and 
sold  for  the  payment  of  my  just  debts  and  the  few  Legacies  I  shall  leave, 
and  the  residue  if  any  there  be  shall  be  dispos'd  of  as  is  hereafter 
directed.  That  is  that  all  my  Land  which  consists  of  two  small  parcels, 
the  one  bought  of  Mr.  Ferguson,  the  other  of  Mr.  Moody,  and  both  since 
enclosed  by  me  under  one  Fence  shall  be  offered  to  the  Hon'ble  the  Coun- 
cil as  being  very  convenient  for  any  future  Governor  of  this  Colony  for 
the  price  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  Pounds  Sterl.,  which  I  take  to  be  under 
the  real  value  thereof,  and  that  the  houshold  Furniture  in  the  Palace 
at  Williamsburg  be  likewise  offered  to  the  council  for  like  price  of  two 
hundred  and  fifty  pounds  sterl.  for  the  use  of  the  succeeding  Governor, 

my  Plate,  Pictures Ware  and  Household  Linnen  excepted.     If  they 

rchase  either  the  Land  or  Furniture that  they  shall  not  be 

sold  till  my  successor sal  of  them  at  the  same  price  for  which 

stay  one  year  and  no  longer.  And  in  case  he  shall  refuse  them  then  I 
will  that  they  be  sold  at  Public  Auction,  or  by  any  other  Method  my  ex- 
ecutors shall  direct  for  the  best  price,  that  can  be  got  for  them. 

It  is  now  expedient  that  I  should  dispose  of  my  Slaves  a  part  of  my 
Estate  in  its  nature  di.^agreeable  to  me,  but  which  my  situation  made 
necessary  for  me:  the  disposal  of  which  has  constantly  given  me  uneasi- 
ness whenever  the  thought  has  occurred  to  me.  1  hope  I  shall  be  found 
to  have  been  a  ^Merciful  Master  to  them  and  that  no  one  of  them  will 
rise  up  in  Judgment  against  me  in  that  great  day  when  all  my  actions 
will  be  exposed  to  public  view.  For  with  what  face  can  I  expect  Mercy 
from  an  offended  God.  if  I  have  not  myself  shewn  mercy  to  those  depen- 
dent on  me.     But  It  is  not  sufficient  that  I  have  been  their  Master  in 


176  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  | 

my  life.  I  must  provide  for  them  at  my  death  by  using  my  utmost  En- 
deavors that  they  experience  as  little  misery  during  their  Lives  as  their 
very  unhappy  and  pitiable  condition  will  allo\y.  Therefore  I  will  that 
they  shall  have  liberty  to  clioose  their  own  Master  and  that  the  Women 
and  their  children  shall  not  be  parted;  that  they  shalL  have  six  ^lonths 
allowed  them  to  make  such  Choice,  during  which  Time  they  shall  be 
maintained  out  of  my  Estate;  That  my  Executors  shall  take  for  them  of 
such  Masters  as  they  shall  choose  twenty  five  Per  Cent  under  the  then 
Market  price.  If  at  the  end  of  Six  Months  any  of  them  shall  not  have 
made  such  Choice  and  if  either  of  my  Executors  clioose  to  take  any  of 

them  I  will  that  they  should  have  them  at  the  same  price  as  if  they 

their  o^^'u  Masters  relying  on  their known  Humanity.    If  my  Exec-  \ 

utors  should  not  choose  to  take them  then  I  request  it  as  my  last  r 

Dying  wish  that  who  shall  retain  a  favorable  opinion  of  me  ] 

— asers  of  such  Slaves  as  they  shall  choose that  they  — mee  j 

belonged  to  me  and  had  been Treatment  which  for  my  sake  I  hope 

they to  them.    And  in  this  Case  I  also  Will  that  they  should  take  J 

the  same  Price  of  such  Persons  or  any  other  on  whom  they  can  depend 
to  answer  my  intention  and  earnest  desire  of  entailing  kindness  upon 
them  as  far  as  it  is  in  my  power,  of  all  which  my  executors  are  to  be  the 
whole  and  sole  Judges,  not  accountable  to  any  one  for  having  sold  them 
at  what  may  be  supposed  to  be  under  Rate.  In  case  of  extremity  and  not 
otherwise,  they  must  be  sold  for  tlie  best  price  that  can  be  got  for  them  - 

All  the  rest  of  my  Effects  in  this  Colony  except  my  Plate,  Pictures^  : 

China  Ware  and  Household  Linnen  as  before  excepted,  and  Musical  In- 
struments, I  hereby  direct  shall  be  sold  for  the  best  price  that  cau  be 
got  for  them  and  I  will  that  the  produce  of  my  land  Slaves  Furniture 
and  other  Effects  be  sold  to  be  Employ'd  to  the  payment  of  my  just  Debts 
and  Legacies,  and  to  be  paid  to  my  eldest  son  Eraneis  Fauquier  for  that 
purpose  by  my  Executors,  after  their  deducting  what  is  necessary  to 
pay  my  funeral  expences  Debts  and  Legacies,  due  in  this  Colony.  And 
I  further  will  that  after  all  such  pajTnents  made  the  overplus  be  divided 
in  equal  parts  between  my  dear  wife  and  two  sons  or  such  of  them  as 
shall  be  living  at  the  time  of  nly  Death,  always  intending  to  make  an 
alteration  in  my  will  if  God  should  grant  me  time  and  understanding, 
after  the  loss  of  either  of  them  if  I  should  survive  such  loss. 

I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  dear  wife  Catharine  Fauquier  all  my 
Plate,  Picture  and  China  Ware  and  Household  Linnen  for  her  whole  and 

sole  Benefit  always  hoping  that  she  will  dispose  of  any  superfluous 

to  either  of  my  sons  if  they  should  Marry  and  Settle,  to  save  them  the 
expence  of  Purchasing  new 

I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  son  Francis  Fauquier  all  my  Books  both 
here  and  in  

I  give  and youngest  son  William  Fauquier  all  my and  Mu- 

sick  Books  bo^Ii  here  and  —  n  conse  bequests  clash  with  the  first 

parts  of  my  will  as  they  are  not  part  of  my  Effects  in  England  and  in- 
cluded in  the  Deed  of  Trust,  but  I  have  a  power  to  alter  that  disposition 
by  my  will,  my  desire  is  that  these  and  whatever  else  may  seem  to 


Fkancis  Fauquiep/s  Will.  177 

clash  therein  may  be  considered  as  such  alterations  and  pass  to  my 
said  sons  in  consequence  of  these  Bequests. 

And  whereas  I  am  indebted  to  my  eldest  son  Francis  Fauquier  in  the 
sum  of  Twelve  Hundred  pounds  st&rlinjr,  my  will  is  that  the  sum  be 
considered  as  part  of  my  Debts  and  not  included  in  the  division  of  my 
Estate.  And  whereas  I  have  sundry  times  advanced  money  to  the  use 
of  my  youngest  son  William  Fauquier  to  the  amount  of  about  1000 
pounds  sterling  my  will  is  that  the  said  sum  of  1001)  pounds  be  paid 
to  my  eldest  son  Francis  Fauquier  to  make  them  equal  before  the  division 
of  my  Estate  takes  place. 

J  hereby  direct  my  Executors  to  purchase  one  single  stone  Brilliant 
Diamond  Ring  of  the  value  of  one  hundred  pounds  sterling  at  least 
which  I  bequeath  to  my  much  esteemed  and  respected  Patron  George 
Montague  Dunk,  Earl  of  Halifax,  as  a  small  token  of  my  Gratitude  to 
him  for  the  many  favours  conferred  on  me  unmerited  on  my  part;  and 
which  I  hope  he  will  do  me  the  Honour  to  wear  in  remembrance  of  a  Man 
who  never  one  Moment  forgot  the  great  Obligation  he  had  to  his  Lord- 
ship. 

I  also  direct  that  my  Executors  purchase  four  other  single  stone 
Brilliant  Diamond  Rings  of  the  value  of  twenty  five  Guineas  each 
(which)   I  bequeath  to  them  not  as  a  reward  for  their  trouble  I  have 

hereby  given  them,  for  I  well  know  they  have  bove  it,  but  which 

I  desire  they  would  wear  in  remembrance  of  a  Man  who  once  loved  them 
and  dies  in  the  belief  that  they  loved  him. 

I  give  to  all with  me  at  the  time  o2  my  Death excepting  to 

my  cook  Anne  Ayscough  to  (whom  I  give)  one  hundred  and  fifty  Pounds 
sterling  in  recompence  of  her  great  fidelity  and  attention  to  me  in  ail 
my  Hlness,  and  of  the  great  Oeconomy  ^ith  which  she  conducted  the  Ex- 
penses of  my  kitchen  during  my  residence  at  Williamsburg  as  his  Ma- 
jesty's Lieutenant  Governor,  when  it  was  in  her  power  to  have  de- 
frauded me  of  several  Hundred  Pounds. 

And  my  further  will  is  that  this  my  will  be  read  by  one  of  my  Execu- 
tors before  my  wife  and  children,  if  in  Virginia,  other  Executors,  ser- 
vants and  Slaves  that  everything  may  be  explained  to  them,  if  there 
should  be  any  clause  which  they  may  not  understand  or  may  give  them 
or  any  of  them  any  uneasiness. 

And  I  hereby  appoint  the  Honbie  William  Nelson,  Robert  Carter,  two 
of  his  Majesty's  Council,  The  Hon^ie  Peyton  Randolph  Speaker  of  the 
House  of  Burgesses,  and  George  Wythe  Esquires  executors  of  this  my 
will  as  it  relates  to  my  Estate  and  Effects  in  Virginia  and  no  farther. 

And  I  hereby  declare  I  have  no  other  will  by  my  having  destroyed  the 
former  which  makes  it  unnecessary  for  me  to  revoke  any  such  Writing 
purposely  to  be  my  will,  and  this  I  declare  to  be 'my  last  will  all  written 
with  my  own  Hand,  and  signed  by  me  at  Williamsburg  the  2Gt!i  of  ^larch 
1767.  Fbancis  Fauquieb. 

Signed  Sealed  &  Published  before  us 

Thos.  Everard,  James  Cocke,  Litt.  Savage. 

Proved  at  a  court  held  for  York  county,  21st  of  March,  176S. 


I 

178  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  i 


INSCRIPTIONS    FROM    VARIOUS    TOMBSTONES    IN 
DINWIDDIE,  CHESTERFIELD,  HENRICO  AND  NEW 
KENT  COUNTIES,  VIRGINIA. 
Transcribed 

BY 

Churchill  Gibson  Cha:\[berlayne. 

{From  the  family  burying  ground  at  ''Porter  Hill,"  corner  of 

Harrison  and  Early  streets,  Petersburg,  Va.) 


IN 

Memory  of 
MRS.  LUCY  ANN  FANNY 

wife  of 
John  C.  Armistead, 


September  3^^  1824, 

Aged  26  Years. 

and  21  days. 

Also  her  infant  Son 

GEORGE  R.  ARMISTEAD, 

Aged  6  Days. 


Sacred 

TO  THE  MEMORY  OF 

JOHN  C.  ARMISTEAD, 

WHO  DEPARTED  THIS  LIFE 

April  11,  1832, 

Aged  50  Years. 

In  tender  regard 

Of  his  many  virtues 

'As  HUSBAND  and  PARENT, 

This  monument  is  erected  by  his 

Widow  and.  Orphans 

As  the  memento 

Of  their  devoted  affections. 


who  departed  this  life  | 


In-sckiptions  from  Tombstones.      J  179 

IN 

Memory  of 
WM.  A.  SYME, 

Son  of 

Marcus  A.  &  Mary 

Ann  Armistead, 

Bom  Oct^  8,  1830, 

Died  Oct^  4,  1832. 


Sacred 

to  the  memory 

of  the 

REY'D  WILLIAM  HARRISON  ^ 

who  departed  this  life 

20th  of  November  1814 

Aged  84  Years. 

In  tender  regard  of  whom 

His  Widow 

hath  caused  this  monument  to  be  erected. 

Here  let  him  rest  in  peace 

And  let  us  try  to  live  like  him 

That  we  like  him  may  die. 


SACRED 

to  the  memory 

of 

MRS.  ANN  HARRISON. 

who  departed  this  life 

July  the  S^-i  1829 

Aged  60  Years. 

Her  Children 

from  a  sense  of  duty  &  affection 

have  caused  this  monument 

to  be  erected 

in  memory  of 

their  tender  Parent. 

If  worth  departed  claims  the  heartfelt  tear. 

Then  stop — and  let  it  stream  profusely  here. 


{From  the  family  burying  ground  at  Matoax,  the  home  of  John 
Randolph,  Sr.,  father  of  John  Randolph  of  Roanoke.  This 
place  is  about  tiuo  miles  loest  of  Petersburg  on  the  Appomat- 
tox river,  in  Chesterfield  county,  Va.  The  graveyard  is  on 
a  hill  almost  immediately  overhanging  the  river.) 

Martha  II all- 
OB :  IV :  xoN :  mart  : 
M,DCC,LXXXiy. 

yE :  XXXVIII. 

Quam  Sprevit  Hymen  Pollux 

Phcebus  que  colere. 


Johannes  Eandolp[h] 

ob  XXYIII  OcTO : 

MDCCLXXV. 

iE:  XXXIV. 

Non  Ossibus  Uma,  nee  Mens 
Virtutibus  absit. 


IHS 

FRANCESCiE   TUCKER.2 

Blandas  Conjugis 

S":  Georgii  Tucker. 

Quis  Desiderio  sit  Modus. 

Obiit  XVIII :  Januarii, 

MDCCLXXXVIII, 

Jilt:  XXXVI. 


180            William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly.  J 

SACRED  i 

To  the  memory  of  ^ 

MAPtTHx\  M.  I 

Wife  of  .                                  I 

Thomas  J.  Perkinson;  j 

OF  AMELIA;  ! 

Departed  this  life  \ 

DECEMBER,  29.  1836,  | 

AGED  27  YEARS.  ) 

Blessed  are  the  dead  who  \ 

.      die  in  the  Lord.  ♦ 

i 


Inscriptions  from  Tombstones.  181 

SACRED 

To  the  memory  of 

SYLVESTER  J.  PIERCE 

Who  departed  this  life 

Dec.  25^h  18G5, 

Aged  54  years. 


{From  the  family  hurying  ground  at  "Oak  Hill,"  Chesterfield 
county,  Va.  "Oak  IlilV  is  on  the  north  hank  of  the  Appo- 
mattox river,  between  Fleet's  Hill  and  the  Richmond  Turn- 
pike, opposite  Petersburg.) 

JOHX  ROXEY 

Died  Feby  17^^  1855 

Aged  34  years. 


In  memory  of  my  dog 

CARL, 
The  faithful  friend  of 

FAXNY  RICE.3 
Died  April  13,  1893. 


{From  the  family  burying  ground  at  "Violet  Bank/'  on  the  Rich- 
mond Turnpike,  in  Chesterfield  county,  about  half  a  mile 
north  of  Petersburg,  Va.) 

SACRED 

To  the  memory  of 

MRS.  ELIZABETH  S.  GILLIAM, 

Relict  of 

JOIi:^  GILLIAM,  ]\I.  D. 

And  daughter  of 

THOMAS  SHORE  Esq, 

of  Violet  Bank  Chesterfield  County. 

Born  January  26,  A.  D.  1797. 

Departed  this  life  March  20,  A.  D.  1858 


182  William  and  Mary  College  Quartesly. 


{From  a  tablet  in  St.  Peter's  Church,  Neio  Kent  county ,  Va.) 

M  S 

Near  this  place  lyes  interred  y^ 

Body  of  M""  William  Chamberlayne 

Late  of  this  Parish  Merch^ 

Descended  of  an  ancient  &  Worthy  Family 

in  the  Connty  of  Hereford. 

He  married  Elizabeth  y®  eldest  Daughter 

of  Eichard  Littlepage  of  this  County, 

by  whom  he  has  left  issue  three  Sons_, 

Edward  Pye,  Thomas/  &  Richard, 

&  two  Daughters,  Mary  &  Elizabeth 

Ob:   2°  Aug^  1736  .Etat  36. 

Hoc  Marmor  exiguum  summi  amoris 

Monumentum  posuit  Conjux  moestissima. 

1737 

Also  Ann  Kidly  ^   Born  Sence 

Her  Fathers  Decease, 

M.  Sidnell  Briftol.    fecit. 


Here 
are  deposited  the  remains 

OF 

JOHN  GILLIAM  M.  D. 
of  petersburg  va. 
Born  april  9th.  a.  d.  1790  ? 

DEPARTED  THIS  LIFE  AUGUST  loTH.  A.  D.   1843  \ 

IN  MEMORY  OF  THE  DECEASED  j 

THIS  TOMB  j 

IS  ERECTED  BY  HIS  AFFLICTED  WIFE.  £ 


A-  I 

WILLIAM  McILYAIXE  WALLACE  "'                        j 

Eldest  son  of  '               I 

D'  J.  M.  Wallace  of  Philadelphia.  \ 

Born  August  '^^,  1848.  \ 

Died  February  20  1854.  '                 \ 

Of  such  is  the  kingdom  of  Heaven.  \ 


Inscriptions  fro:m  Tombstones.  183 

(From  a  tomhstone  on  what  is  noiu  the  play  ground  of  the  Re- 
formatory^ at  Laurel  Station,  li.,  F.  &  P.  R.  E.,  in  Henrico 
county,  Ya.) 

BENEATH   REPOSE  THE  REMAINS 
OF 

WILLIAM  JEXNIXGS 

Bora  Oct'r  8^^  A.  D.  1813. 
Died  Oct'r  29'^  A.  D.  1851. 

ALSO 

His  Infant  Son 

OSCAR  JENXIIS^GS 

Born  Jan'y  25*^  A.  D,  1849. 

Died  Feb 7  10^^  A.  D.  18-19. 

Notes.  "     " 

(1)  Rev  Wm  Harrison  was  Minister  of  Bristol  Parish  Va  from  Nov- 
22nd  17G2  to  Feby  -1th  1780.  For  references  to  him,  see  Slaughter's  "A 
Ilistory  of  Bristol  Parish,"  also  "The  Vestry  Book  and  Register  of  Bris- 
tol Parish,  Virginia  1720-1789" 

(2)  Mother  of  John  Randolph  of  Roanoke.  On  page  292  of  "The  Ves- 
try Book  and  Register  of  Bristol  Parish,  Virginia  1720-1789"  there  is 
this  entry:    "Frances  Daughter  of  Theo^i  Bland  born  24th  Sept  1752."  ' 

(3)  While  filling  an  engagement  at  the  theatre  in  Petersburg  in  April 
1893  Miss  Fanny  Rice,  the  actress,  had  the  misfortune  to  lose  her  pet 
dog  by  sickness.  It  was  attended  by  Dr.  Potts  a  local  veterinary  sur- 
geon, and  at  its  death  was  buried  by  him  at  "Oak  Hill"  where  he  was 
then  living. 

(4)  Thomas  Chamberlayne  married  Wilhelmina  Byrd,  daughter  of 
Col.  V/illiam  Byrd  2^*3.  See  Hening's  Statutes  at  Large,  Vol.  6.  Page 
319. 

(5)  In  Hening's  Statutes  at  Large,  Vol  5  Page  117  there  is  given  an 
Act  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  making  provision  for  this  child. 


SIR  THOMAS  LUXSFORD. 

Among  the  cavaliers  who  came  to  Virginia  in  1649  was  Sir 
Thomas  Lunsford,  knight  baronet.  He  was  knighted  December 
28,  1641,  and  made  lieutenant  of  the  Tower  of  London.  On  the 
27th  of  December,  while  walking  through  Westminster  Hall  with 
twenty  or  thirty  of  his  friends,  and  meeting  a  band  of  appren- 
tices, he  and  his  companions  drew  their  swords  and  wounded 
twenty  or  thirty  of  them  and  denounced  them  as  **Roundlieads'^ 


184  WiLLiA:\t  AXD  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

because  it  was  their  fashion  to  cut  the  hair  rounfl.  He  married, 
it  scorns,  three  times.  His  second  wife  was  Catherine,  daughter 
of  Sir  Renvy  Xeville,  of  County  Berks,  and  his  wife  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Smith,  of  County  Kent.  •  By  her  he  had 
a  daughter,  Elizabeth,  born  in  1G42,  who  in  1667  married  Dani*^! 
Xorton  of  County  Berks,  Philippa,  who  died  young,  and  ]\Iaria, 
born  in  the  Tower  of  London,  who  in  16G5  married  Thomas  Col- 
lier, a  brewer  of  Shoe  Lane,  London.  (Xeill's  Virginia  Caro- 
lonum,  p.  381.)  There  was  a  William  Lunsford,  Esq.,  probably  a 
son,  mentioned  in  the  land  grant  given  him  on  his  arrival  in  Vir- 
ginia. 

This  grant,  dated  Oct.  24,  1650,  was  for  3,423  acres  "lying 
upon  a  Bay  on  the  south  side  of  Eappahannock  river.''  The  con- 
sideration was  his  transport  at  ioii  of  sixty-five  persons,  who  are 
named  in  the  records  as  fallows : 

Sr  Thomas  Lunsford  Knt  Bart.,  the  Lady  Lunsford,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Lunsford,  Mrs.  Philippa  Lunsford,  Mrs.  Mary  Lunsford,  Wm.  Lunsford 
Esqre.  Mr  Foster,  IMr  Henry  Benskin,  Mr  Bird,  ^Mr  Cook,  Mr  Warren, • 
Mr  Cartwright,  Mr  David  Phillips,  Mr  Wm  Caldwell,  Mrs  Peirce,  Mrs 
Ann  Bradley,  Mr  Thomas  INIarshall,  James  Eandall,  Robert  Beard,  Ed- 
mond  Roberts,  William  Bush,  Valentine  Harvey,  Thomas  Aldridge, 
Thomas  Davis,  Francis  Pioberts,  Richard  Millard,  Richd  Greene,  Isabella 
Maidhone,  John  Butcher,  John  Beech,  Nicholas  IMenloe*  John  Madley. 
Nieho.  Church,  Antho:  Griffith,  Wm  Fletcher,  Richard  Holdrieh,  Cassa- 
namjius  Smith,  John  Williams,  George  Weeden,  Edraond  Hawkes,  John 
Bradbury,  Thomas  Meuloe,  Tliomas  Hodskins,  William  Velley,  Tho. 
[Maidstone,  Yarmer  Jones,  Mrs.  Jones,  Jones  his  child,  Jones  his  child. 
Robert  Hallowes,  Wm  Griffeth,  Wm  Copeland,  James  Wheafeby,  Old 
Buck,  Wm  Harpny,  Christopher  Godson,  Eliza  Scotchwoman,  Martha, 
Isaac  Cavalier,  Gregory,  Dandall,  our  called  the  Indian,  Penelope  Harris, 
Mrs  Maidstones  child. 

A  pedigree  of  the  Lunsfords  in  the  British  Museum  mentions 
that  Lunsford  ^^sould  all  and  went  into  Virginia,  where  he  mar- 
ried his  third  -uife."  He  was  made  by  Sir  William  Berkeley 
lieutenant-general  of  the  Colony  and  a  member  of  the  Council. 
(QUxUiTERLY,  IV.,  p.  202.)  He  died  before  1656,  as  in  that  year 
the  Dame  Elizabeth  Lunsford  appears  in  the  Lancaster  records 
as  transacting  business  in  her  o^\'ti  name.  She  was  the  widow 
first  of  Eichard  Kempe,  Esq.,  secretary  of  state,  and  after  Luns- 
ford's  death,  married  Major-General  Eobeii:  Smith,  of  Middle- 
sex county. 


Sir  Thomas  Lunsfoed.  185 

"I  Thomas  Stegge  do  liereby  acknowledge  that  I  have  receaved  of  the 
Lady  Lunsford  Twoe  Thousand  pounds  of  Tobaccoe  &  Caske  wch  is  in 
full  of  all  Accompts  between  Mr  John  Calvert  &  Mr  Richard  Kempe,  as 
•witness  my  hand  this  first  of  December  1G56. 

"Eeeorded  7^  Jan  Ao  IGoG  Thomas  Stegge." 

Sir  Thomas  Lunsford  was  buried  near  Greenspring,  the  resi- 
•dence  of  Sir  William  Berkeley,  and  there  was  a  monument  there 
to  the  joint  memories  of  Thomas  Ludwell,  Esq.,  secretary  of 
state,  Kichard  Kempe,  his  predecessor  in  the  secretary's  office, 
and  Sir  Thomas  Lunsford.  This  tombstone  is  now  in  the  church- 
yard at  "Williamsburg,  whither  it  was  carried  some  years  ago. 
The  Lady  Lunsford,  who  survived  him,  was  his  Virginia  and 
third  wife.  In  the  Lancaster  county  records  occurs  a  deed,  dated 
April  28,  1G56,  from  Dame  Elizabeth  Lunsford  to  her  losing 
friend  Eichard  Lee,  for  fifty  acres  on  Eappahannock  river,  ''Toe- 
ing part  of  a  dividend  assigned  me  by  Sam'l  Abbott."  She  had 
one  daughter,  Catherine,  so  called  by  reason  of  the  custom  of  our 
ancestors  of  naming  the  eldest  child  after  the  dead  wife.  In  the 
records  of  the  General  Court  appears  this  entry  some  years  later : 

12th  of  October  1670.— 

Governor  Sr  Henry  Chieheley,  Tho.  Ludwell,  Seer,  Edwd  Diggs,  Major 
Genii  Smith,  Tlieo.  Bland,  Coll  Swann,  Lt  Coll  Parke,  Coll  Brown,  Coll 


Whereas  Sr  Thomas  Lunsford  Knt  Barront  deed  was  by  pattent 
possesst  of  a  tract  of  land  conteyning  about  three  or  foure  thousand 
acres  of  Land  lying  in  the  freshes  of  Rappa  river  commonly  called  porto- 
bacco  and  whereas  at  this  Court  Mrs  Katherine  Lunsford  one  of  the 
Daughters  of  the  said  Sr  Thomas  petitions  this  cort  that  she  might  be 
permitted  to  seat  such  pt  of  the  said  land  in  her  owne  right  as  this 
court  should  thinke  fitt  to  allow  The  Cort  doth  thereupon  ordr  that 
she  doe  seat  and  possesse  herselfe  of  some  pt  of  the  said  land  that  may 
not  prjudice  the  Indians  now  liveing  upon  pt  of  the  said  land  And  where- 
as there  are  three  daughtrs  in  England  by  a  formr  venture  who  hath  not 
made  any  claime  to  the  said  land  It  is  ordrd  tliat  if  they  doe  not  make 
their  clayme  to  the  sd  land  according  to  Act,  that  then  the  said  Katlie- 
rine  to  have  hold  possesse  and  enjoy  the  same  to  lier  and  her  heires  for- 
ever and  the  petition  of  the  said  Katherine  ordrd  to  be  recorded. 

Madam  Katherine  married,  first,  Peter  Jennings,  attorney-gen- 
eral, and,  second,  about  1G72,  Hon.  Ealpli  Wormely,  Esq.,  secre- 
tary of  state,  and  her  death  in  1G85  is  thus  recorded  in  the  parish 
Tegister  of  Middlesex  county : 


186  William  axd  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

The  Honorable  Lady  Madam  Katherine  Wormeley  wife  of  the  HonM^ 
Ralph  Wormeley  Esqr  Departed  this  Life  17th  of  May  1GS5  &  was  buried 
in  the  Chancell  of  the  Great  Church  between  y-  Hon  [Sir  Henry] 
Chicheley  &     *     * 

She  had  issue,  by  Wormeley,  two  daughters,  (1)  Elizabeth^ 
who  married  3Ir.  John  Lomax,  Bon  of  Rev.  John  Lomax  and 
Catherine  Gray  his  ^nfe,  (2)  Catherine,  wiio  married  Gawin 
Corbin,  but  left  no  issue. 

"Mr  John  Lomax  &  Mrs  Elizabeth  Wormley  were  Married  June  y^ 
1st  1703"   {Middlesex  Register). 

There  is  of  record  in  Essex  county  a  deed,  dated  April  8,  1?0?, 
from  Gawin  Corbin,  releasing  his  right  to  "John  Lomax  of  the 
county  of  Essex,  in  the  Colony  of  Y.irginia,  gentleman,  and  to 
Elizabeth  Lomax,  his  "wife,  late  Elizabeth  Wormeley,  daughter  of 
Ralph  Wormeley,  Esq.,  deceased,'^  in  an  island  of  500  acres  in- 
cluded within  the  land  called  Portobago  formerly  granted  to  Sir 
Thomas  Lunsford,  knight  and  baronet,  on  October  2-i,  1650.  The 
deed  recites  that  Gawin  Corbin  and  John  Lomax  and  Elizabeth 
his  wife  "have  actual  possession  of  said  land,'^  and  that  Gawin 
Corbin  ^Tias  a  life  interest  in  a  moiety  of  the  same,  after  whose 
death  the  reversion  thereof  is  the  proper  inheritance  of  the  said 
John  Lomax  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  late  Elizabeth  Wormeley,  in 
fee  simple." 

Issue  of  John  Lomax  and  Elizabeth  Wormeley:  Lunsford, 
born  Xov.  5,  1705;  Catherine,  bom  Oct.  5,  1707;  Susannah- 
John,  Frances. 

Lunsford  Lomax  married  Mary  Edwards,  daus^hter  of  William 
Edwards,*  of  Williamsburg,  June  14,  1729.  The  ceremony  was 
performed  by  Rev.  James  Blair  at  Mr.  LudwelFs  (Greenspring). 

Thus,  through  the  Lomax  family  and  its  intermarriages.  Sir 
Thomas  Lunsford  has  numerous  descendants  in  Virginia,  among 
whom  may  be  mentioned  Lunsford  Lomax  Le^vis,  Ex-President 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Appeals  of  Virginia.  (See  Virginia 
Magazine,  Vol.  I.,  and  Lomax  Famibj.) 

*  William  Edwards  resided  more  often  in  Surry  where  his  ancestors- 
had  Ions  been  seated. 


Personal  Notes  FROii  Vikgixia  Gazette.  187 


PERSONAL  NOTICES  FROM  THE  VIRGINIA  GAZETTE. 

Virginia  Gazette,  edited  hy  William  Hind,  January,  1769   to 
January,  1770. 

On  the  30th  of  December  last  died  Mr.  Dekar  Thompson,  of 
Falmouth.    January  12. 

We  are  informed  that  Mr.  George  Savage,  lately  of  the  Secre- 
tary's Office,  is  married  to  Miss  Kendall,  a  young  lady  possessed 
of  an  independent  fortune  of  at  least  6,000£. 

We  hear  from  Providence,  in  New  Kent  county,  that  on  the 
8th  instant  the  Rev.  Charles  Jeffrey  Smith,  who  proposes  to  set- 
tle and  reside  on  his  estate,  opened  a  subscription  for  erecting 
a  Presb\i:erian  church  70  feet  in  length  and  forty  in  breadth  with 
galleries  and  a  steeple,  which  was  generously  encouraged.  The 
building  of  which  will  be  let  to  the  lowest  undertaker  on  Wed- 
nesday, the  22d  instant,  at  said  place,  by  the  managers,  who  will 
attend  there  on  that  day.    Feb.  16. 

On  Thursday  last  Francis  Lightfoot  Lee  Esq  was  married  ta 
[Miss  Rebecca  Tayloe,  a  daughter  to  Hon.  John  Tayloe.  March 
16. 

This  evening  Samuel  Thompson,  Esq.,  commander  of  his  Ma- 
jesty's ship  Rippon,  was  married  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Blair,  daugh- 
ter 01  the  Honourable  John  Blair  Esq.    [Poetry.] 

On  Thursday  last  was  married  Capt.  Robert  Robertson  to  Miss 
Susanna  Deadman,  a  very  agreeable  young  lady.    March  16. 

Died  lately,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Nevison,  rector  of  Meherrin  church,. 
in  Brunswick. 

Also  the  lady  of  Rev.  Mr.  Warrington,  after  breakfast,  sud- 
denly   April  13,  1769. 

On  the  5th  instant  Mr.  Charles  Digges  died  suddenly  in  the 
prime  of  life  at  Dumfries  in  Prince  William  county.  He  was 
the  eldest  son  of  William  Digges,  Esq.,  of  Mar^dand.  .  .  His 
acquaintance  was  very  extensive  both  in  Europe  and  America. 
April  13. 

On  Tuesday  last  died  at  Porto  Bello  after  a  short  illness  Mr. 
Alexander  Finnic,  for  many  years  adjutant  to  the  middle  dis- 
trict of  this  colony. 


188  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

On  the  25th  ulto  died  in  an  advanced  age  at  his  house  in  Essex 
county  Col  William  Daingerficld  &c.     May  4. 

On  Thursday  the  3d  instant  Mr.  Meriwether  Smith  of  Essex 

county,  and  who  has  obliged  the  public  through  the  channel  of 

this  paper  with  several  spirited  pieces  relating  to  the  Stamp  act 

'  and  other  acts  of  Parliament,  was  married  to  Miss  Betsy  Dain- 

gerfield,  of  King  and  Queen  Co. 

Lately  died  in  Albemarle  the  Eeverend  Mr  James  Maury, 
Rector  of  Fredericksville  in  that  county.  .  .  .  Let  it  not 
"therefore  \ye  thought  impertinent  to  tell  the  public  that  the  gen- 
tleman here  spoken  of  was  bom  in  Virginia  and  brought  up  at 
William  and  Mary  College,  and  was  an  honour  both  to  his  coun- 
try and  the  place  of  his  education.  .•  .  .  It  might  have  been 
hard  to  say  whether  he  was  more  to  be  admired  as  a  learned  man 
or  reverenced  as  a  good  man.     [Long  obituary].    August  24. 

Capt.  Henry  Talman  died  a  few  days  ago  at  his  house  in  Xew 
Kent  county.    Dec.  7. 

On  Monday  the  27th  ulto.  departed  this  Life  Col  Thomas 
Tabb,  long  a  member  for  Amelia  Co.  He  had  for  several  years 
struggled,  with  uncommon  fortitude,  with  the  dropsy,  which  at 
last  put  a  period  to  his  days  to  the  great  regret  of  his  neighbours 
and  numerous  acquaintances,  to  whom  he  was  ever  dear,  being 
their  counsellor,  friend  &  benefactor.  Few  (if  any)  Virginians 
traded  so  extensively  as  he  did ;  none  with  better  credit,  or  char- 
acter; and  by  his  death  the  Colony  has  lost  one  of  its  most  use- 
ful members.    Dec.  7. 

On  Friday  died  at  his  house  in  N'orthumberland  county  the 
Hon.  Presley  Thornton,  Esq.,  one  of  his  Majesty's  council  in  this 
Colony  &c.    Dec.  14. 

Virginia  Gazette,  edited  hy  Alexander  Purdie  and  John  Dixon. 

January,  1771-January,  1772. 

1771., 

On  Monday  3d  ult.  died  at  his  seat  in  Southampton  county  in 
the  61st  year  of  his  age  Colonel  Jesse  Brown,  a  Gentleman  who 
was  thoroughly  versed  in  surgerv^  &c.    Jan.  3. 

Deaths — Gabriel  Cay,  Esq.,  Comptroller  of  his  Majesty's  cus- 
toms for  the  Port  of  Hampton.  Mr.  Thomas  Jameson,  merchant 
of  Yorktown.  George  Gurley  father  of  Eev.  George  Gurley,  rec- 
tor of  St.  Luke's  Parish  in  this  (Southampton)  county.  Jan.  10. 


Personal  Notes  from  Virgixia  Gazette.  189 

On  Sunday  25th  Xovember  last  William  Xelson,  junior,  and 
his  new  married  lady  made  their  appearance  in  Stratton  Major 
church,  King  and  Queen  Co.,  for  the  first  time  after  marriage, 
when  the  Rev.  Mr.  Dunlap  delivered  an  excellent  sermon  on  the 
marriage  state.    Jan  IT. 

Friday  Jan  25  died  this  morning  at  his  house  near  this  city 
Mr.  Frederick  Br}'an  for  many  years  deputy  sheriff  of  York  Co. 
Jan  24. 

On  Saturday  died,  at  Mr.  Eoger  Gregory's  in  King  William  Co.. 
Capt  Charles  Seaton,  of  Bristol,  for  many  years  commander  of  a 
ship  in  the  Virginia  trade.     Februarv  1-i. 

Dwelling  house  of  Mrs  Langburne  in  King  William  Co.  burned 
down.  Yesterday  was  married  in  Henrico  Mr.  William  Carter, 
third  son  of  3Ir  John  Carter,  aged  23,  to  Mrs  Sarah  Ellyson, 
Eelict  of  Mr.  Gerard  Ellyson,  deced,  aged  eighty-five,  a  sprightly 
old  tit  with  three  thousand  pounds  fortune.  Deaths :  Mr.  George 
Nicholas,  clerk  of  Dinwiddle,  ^Irs.  Jameson  relict  of  Mr.  Thomas 
Jameson  of  Yorktown,  merchant,  lately  deced.    March  14. 

Last  week  died  here  (Norfolk)  Mr.  Eichard  Knight,  merchant, 
Louisa  county,  March  12  on  Saturday  last  died  Sir  William  Bick- 
ley.  Baronet.  Eichmond,  Drowned  Mr.  Jasper  Halket,  store- 
keeper with  Mr.  Neil  Campbell,  while  crossing  a  creek  on  horse- 
back, his  sermon  was  preached  by  Eev.  William  Coutts.  March 
21. 

Married  James  Parke  Farley,  Esquire,  to  Miss  Betsey  Byrd. 
eldest  daughter  of  Hon.  William  Byrd,  Esq.    March  28. 

Death:  Mrs.  Catherine  Davenport,  relict  of  Mr.  George  Da- 
venport, late  of  this  city.    April  18. 

On  the  14th  instant  died  at  Blandford  on  Appomattox,  in  the 
fifty-fifth  year  of  his  age.  Mr.  Samuel  Gordon,  merchant  at  that 
place  for. many  years.     He  left  no  children. 

Married  Hugh  Nelson,  Esq.,  second  son  of  his  Honor  the  Pres- 
ident [William  Nelson],  to  Miss  Judy  Page,  eldest  dau.  of  Hon. 
John  Page.  William  Griffin,  Esq.,  to  ^[rs.  Eobinson,  widow  of 
the  late  Speaker.    May  16. 

Married,  Doctor  James  Blair  of  this  city  to  Miss  Kitty  Eustace, 
of  New  York,    Peter  Thornton,  Esq.,  of  Northumberland  to  Miss 
Sally  Throckmorton,  of  Gloucester.    May  23. 
"^Eobert  Burwell's  house  on  Burwell  Bav  described.     Jime  20. 


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190  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

Marriages :  David  Kerr,  Esq.,  atty  at  law  in  King  and  Queen,  to 
Miss  Fanny  Tucker,  dau  of  late  Col.  Robert  Tucker  of  Norfolk. 
Death :  Mr.  Francis  Jerdone,  of  Louisc,  an  eminent  merchant  in 
that  county.  He  acquired  a  handsome  fortune  by  trade,  with  the 
fairest  reputation.    August  15. 

Death:  Bowler  Cocke,  Esq.,  at  his  seat  at  Shirley.    Aug.  22. 
~  ^'    Yesterday  morning  died  at  Westover,  in  an  advanced  age,  Mrs. 
Maria  Byrd,  mother  of  Hon.  William  Byrd,  Esq.     Aug.  29. 

On  13th  ult.  died  at  his  house  at  Curies  in  Henrico,  aged  75, 
John  Pleasants.    Sept.  12. 

Death :  Armistead  Lightfoot,  Esq.,  at  his  house  in  Yorktown. 
Sept.  19. 

Death:    Mr.  Thomas  Thompson,  of  Norfolk,  merchant.     Mr 
Eobert  Crooks,  a  merchant  of  that  place.    Sept.  16. 
VMarried:  Sept.  19  John  Spotswood,  Esquire,  of  Spotsylvania, 
/  to  Miss  Sally  Eowzee,  youngest  dau.  of  Mr.  John.  Eowzee,  of  Es- 
sex county. 

Last  Thursday,  Mr.  Eobert  Taylor,  of  Norfolk,  to  Miss  Sally 
Barraud,  eldest  dau.  of  Mr  Daniel  Barraud,  merchant  in  that 
place.  John  Carter,  Esq.,  of  King  George,  to  Miss  Philadelphia 
Claiborne,  youngest  dau.  of  Philip  Whitehead  Claiborne,  Esq., 
of  King  William  county.  Deaths :  Dr.  John  Dalgieish  of  Nor- 
folk, faithful  physician.  IMr.  George  Ellis,  merchant  of  Eich- 
mond  town,  at  Norfolk ;  Mr.  Thomas  Aitchison,  of  Portsmouth, 
formerly  an  eminent  merchant  in  this  county.  Mr  Harrv'  Eob- 
inson  of  King  William,  atty  at  law,  a  fair  practitioner  &c.  ^Ir. 
--  ^  John  Kidd,  of  Philadelphia,  merchant  at  Norfolk.  Oct.  3. 
•^  Death:  Col.  Eichard  Johnson,  of  Newcastle.    Oct.  10. 

Death :  On  6th  of  July  last  in  South  of  France,  Captain  Byrd, 
eldest  son  of  Hon.  William  Byrd,  Esq.  Mr.  John  Vrilson,  shoe- 
maker, and  Mr.  James  Esther,  blockmaker,  both  tradesmen  in 
credit.    Oct.  17. 

Deaths :  Mrs.  Catherine  Blaikley,  of  this  city,  in  the  76th  year 
of  her  age,  an  eminent  midwife,  and  who  in  the  course  of  her 
practice  brought  upwards  of  3,000  children  into  the  world.  Mrs. 
Huldah  Eead,  in  the  26th  year  of  her  age,  wife  of  Dr.  John  K. 
Eead,  of  Hanover  Co.    Oct.  24. 

Death:  Eichard  Baker,  Esq.,  atty  at  law  and  clerk  of  Isle  of 
Wight  CO.    Oct.  31. 

On  Tuesday  last  died,,  in  the  85th  year  of  his  age,  Hon.  John 


Will  of  Orlando  Jones.  191 

Blair,  a  gentleman  who  in  the  course  of  a  long  life  discharged 
the  office  of  Eepresentative,,  Auditor,  Judge,  Privy  Councillor 
^nd  President  of  the  Col..tiy.    Nov.  7. 

On  Sunday  last,  10th  of  this  month,  in  King  William,  died 
Mrs.  Mary  Gregory,  lady  of  Eoger  Gregory,  Esq.  Marriage:  Mr. 
Jajnes  ^lills,  merchant  of  Urbanna,  to  Mrs.  Boyd,  relict  of  Mr 
Walter  Boyd  of  Blandford.    Xov.  14. 

Married:  Mr.  John  Burwell  to  Miss  Xanc}'  Powell,  youngest 
daughter  of  Mr.  Benjamin  Powell  of  this  city.  Death:  Mr 
Pliilip  Whitehead  Claiborne,  a  few  days  after  being  elected  one 
of  the  representatives  for  Edng  William,  at  his  house  in  that 
county.^   December  5. 


WILL  OF  OELANDO  JOXES. 

Orlando  Jones,  son  of  Eev.  Rowland  Jones,  was  the  grandfather  of 
Martha  Washington,  whose  mother  was  Frances  Jones  married  to  Col. 
John  Dandridge  July  22,  1730. 

To  the  article  on  "The  Dandridges  of  Virginia"  (Quarterly,  V.,  p. 
30)  may  be  added  the  fact  that  in  1765  Washington  wrote  to  Francis 
Dandridge,  of  London,  "After  six  years  silence  the  time  I  have  been  mar- 
ried to  your  niece"  {Sparks'  Writijigs  of  Washington,  Vol.  II.,  p.  342). 
It  ought  not  to  be  a  difficult  matter  to  trace  the  family  back  from  him 
by  means  of  the  records  in  London. 

In  the  Name  of  God  Amen  I  Orlando  Jones  being  in  perfect 
heallh  of  body  make  this  my  last  will  &  Testament  hereby  Re- 
voaking  all  other  wills  by  me  heretofore  made  first  I  will  &  devise 
Order  &  appoint  my  house  &  two  lotts  in  Williamsburgh  be  sold 
by  my  exec'^  hereafter  named  towards  payment  of  my  debts  lega- 
cies &  funeral  charges  &  out  of  the  produce  thereof  I  give  to  my 
loving  wife  Mary  eJones  one  hundred  pounds  sterl  with  what  other 
legacies  '.are  hereinafter  given  to  her  are  in  full  Compensation  & 
recompence  for  her  Dower  or  full  share  of  my  Estate  2*^^^  I  give 
to  my  3*^  wife  my  best  feather  bed  &  furniture  &  riding  horse  S^^^ 
I  give  to  my  Daughter  Frances  Jones  my  next  best  feather  bed  & 
furniture  Item  I  give  to  my  s"*  Daughter  Frances  Jones  &  her 
heires  forever  all  my  land  jo}Tiing  upon  John's  creek  in  King 
W""  county  Item  I  give  to  my  s*^  wife  her  trunk  &  all  in  it  Item 
I  giv?  to  my  Daughter  Frances  Jones  the  trunk  that  was  her 
motht  rs  &  all  in  that. 

Itei:^!  I  give  to  my  loving  wife  Mar}^  Jones  &  to  her  heires  for- 


192  William  and  Mary  College  Quai  terly. 

ever  my  niolatto  woman  Slave  named  frank  with  all  her  increase 
from  this  date  Item  I  devise  that  my  s^  Wife  may  have  the  tui- 
tion &  bringing  up  my  s*^  Daughter  till  she  comes  of  age  or  is  mar- 
ried Item  I  will  &  desire  that  when  my  sd  house  &  lots  shall  be 
sold  that  if  it  should  not  produce  as  much  as  will  pay  the  hun- 
dred pounds  Sterl  &  my  debts  that  then  my  Tob"  shipcd  &  now  to 
be  shipped  or  the  produce  thereof  with  what  other  personal  Estate 
I  have  &  my  debts  owing  to  me  I  desire  may  be  appropriated  for 
that  use  &  to  Supply  that  defect  Item  I  give  to  my  son  Lane 
Jones  &  to  his  heirs  forever  the  following  Slaves  viz^  Hannah 
!N"ed  David  Sarah  Selton  great  Jenney  Warwick  Jenney  Old  Jack 
at  Cohokes  my  ser^  will  Canaday.  Item  I  give  to  my  s*^  Daughter 
frances  the  following  slaves  viz  Nanny  Cohoke  Jenny  Gabriel 
Poll  Johnny  Dinah  Kate  &  her  Girl  Jenny  to  her  &  her  heirs  for- 
ever &  John  Bird  I  give  my  great  Silver  Tankard  to  my  son 
Lane  Jones  I  give  my  Caudle  Cup  to  my  Daughter  Frances  & 
six  Silver  spoons  of  the  best  in  the  House  likewise  I  give  her  my 
negro  Man  Dick  to  her  &  her  heirs  forever  Item  I  give  to  my  s° 
wife  the  use  &  Occupation  of  all  my  household  stuff  &  my  stock 
of  cattle  now  here  as  long  as  she  shall  live  here  with  my  children 
a  widdow  &  perform  this  my  last  will  &  Testament  together 
w*^  my  sheep  &  hoggs  &  then  to  my  son  Lane  Jones  &  his  heirs 
forever.  Item  I  desire  my  two  friends  Mathew  Peirce  &  Baldwin 
Mathews  may  be  overseers  or  coadjutors  to  assist  my  wife  in  per- 
forming this  my  last  will.  Lastly  I  appoint  my  loving  wife  ^lary 
Jones  &  my  friend  Baldwin  Mathews  to  be  Exee^^  of  this  my  last 
will  &  Testament  contained  in  two  half  sheets  of  paper  Witness 
my  hand  &  seal  June  the  4^^  anno  Dom.  1719  xA.lso  I  order  my 
brother  W"^  Macon  to  be  tutor  to  my  son  Lane  if  he  will  accept 
thereof.  Orlando  Jones. 

Published  before  us  &  also  signed  &  sealed 

Tho.  Crisp  X  Mary  Brathwaitch  John  Brathwate. 
mark. 

At  a  Court  held  for  York  county  Nov'*  16:  1719  This  last  will 
&  testament  of  Orlando  Jones  dec^  was  presented  in  court  Vry 
Mary  Jones  one  of  the  ex^^  therein  named  (Baldwin  Mathe-^vs 
the  other  exec'"  having  relinquished  the  exershipp)  who  made  Oath 
to  it  &  being  proved  by  the  signatures  of  all  the  witnesses  thereto 
is  admitted  to  Record. 

Test  Phi.  Lightfoot^  CI  Cur. 


Mareiage  Bonds  in  Chaklks  City  County.  193 


MAREIAGE  BONDS  IN  CIIAPtLES  CITY  COUNTY. 

Mr.  James  A.  Leach  found  among  the  loose  papers  in  Charles  City 
Clerk's  office  some  marriage  bonds,  which  have  especial  value  in  view 
of  the  destruction  tliat  overtook  most  of  the  records  there  during  the 
war.    He  was  kind  enough  to  make  the  following  list  of  them. 

Levi  Jenkius  and  Mary  Waldrop,  Jan.  3,  1785. 

Wm.  Wright  and  Martha  Jackson  (Spinster),  Dec.  23,  1781. 

Ishmael  Carter  and  Elvey  Martin,  June  20,  1809. 

Charles  Alvis  and  Emily  W.  ButMn,  dau.  of  Giles  Buffin,  Oct. 
21,  1828. 

Armstead  Atkins  and  Nancy  Plumry,  dau.  of  Policy,  July  15, 
IBM. 

Eobt.  Maddox  and  Lucy  Waddill,  dau.  of  Mary  Waddill,  Feb. 
14, 1848. 

Thos.  Matthis  and  Eebecca  Moody,  Feb.  9,  1788. 

Wm.  Marrable  and  Susannah  Weaver  (Spinster),  Jan.  1, 1772, 
dau.  of  Joseph  AYeaver. 

Nathaniel  Maynard  and  Elizabeth  Mathews,  Dec.  21,  1789. 

Mountcastle  Joseph  T.  and  Mildred  Snips,  Nov.  13,  1828. 

Henry  Skipwith  and  Ann  Wayles,  July  7,  1773. 

Wm.  HaATies  and  Frances  A.  E.  Hall,  Oct.  14,  1824. 

Jno.  T.  Harwood  and  Mildred  :Morecock,  Dec.  20,  1821. 

Wm.  T.  Martin  and  Susan  A.  B.  Binns,  dau.  of  Boiling  Binns, 
Dee.  20,  1844. 

Christopher  HajTies  and  Anne  Young,  March  30,  1791. 

Henr}^  Lacy  and  Lucy  Duke  Timberlake,  Jan.  22,  1787. 
■'^'■'  Crawley  Ma^Tiard  and  Elizabeth  Merr}',  May  27,  1791,  dau. 
of  David  Merry. 

Geo.  Clarke  and  Elizabeth  Lawson,  Oct.  7,  1842. 

Braxton  Harrison  and  Cammilla  A.  M.  Johnson,  April  IS, 
1826. 

Eobt.  Freeman  and  Ann  Hunnicut,  June  2,  1824. 

Benj.  Hilliard  and  Jenny  Johnv^on,  Sept.  15,  1824. 

John  Timberlake  and  Susanna  Christian,  May  20,  1788,  Gid- 
eon Christian's  dau. 

Richard  Taylor  and  Lucy  Gregory  (widow),  Oct.  13,  1773. 

Edward  Walker  and  Nancy  Lored,  Dec.  28,  1795. 

Theodrick  Gathright  and  Elizabeth  Jordan,  April  9,  1806. 

Wm.  Gregory-  and  Ann  Eoyster  (Spinster),  July  24,  17G4. 


194  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

John  Minson  and  Ann  Whitlock  Wills,  Jan.  28,  1797. 

John  Parkes  and  Agnes  Holdsvvorth,  May  26,  1805. 

John  Wodrop  and  Mary  Clarke,  Jan.  12,  1769. 

Wat.  H.  Tyler  and  P^liza  W.  W.  Walker,  May  5,  1812. 

Joseph  Jackson  and  Patsey  iioacli,  Xov.  S,  1810. 

Samuel  Trower  and  Alice,  dau.  of  Gideon  Christian,  June  19, 
1787. 

Fleming  B.  Major  and  Sarah  H.  Wilcox,  Feh.  28,  1843. 

James  jVL'iles  and  Mary  Thompson,  May  3,  1784. 
'  Henry  Phillips  and  Frances  Pearman,  Oct.  26,  178-4. 

John  T.  Marston  and  Frances  B.  Parker,  Xov.  15,  1827. 

James  Brown  and  Sally  Stewart,  March  11,  1816,  colored. 

W^m.  Burton  and  May  Baily,  March  31,  1788. 

Thos.  J.  West  and  Lucy  x\nn  Eandolph,  dau.  of  Isham  Ran- 
dolph, May  27,  1820. 

Thos.  Wilkinson  and  Xancy  Bradley,  Feb.  8,  1808. 

Wliill  Eatclif  and  Jane  Blanks,  Aug.  16,  1821. 

Henry  Woodcock  and  Mary  A.  Blanks,  dau.  of  Miles  Blanks, 
dec'd,  Xov.  28,  18-19. 

John  West  and  Rebecca  Willcox,  April  5,  1786. 

Wm.  A.  Amnions  and  Christiana  C.  A.  Southall,  July  16, 1842. 

Lewis  Crutchfield  and  Mildred  Jamison,  Spinster,  Oct.  29, 
1779. 
v'Henry  D.  Vaden  and  Sarah  M.  Stubblefield,  March  14,  1842. 

Michael  Bradley  and  Elizabeth  Otey,  Xov.  15,  1805. 
i-  Pleasant  Day  and  Elizabeth  Jane  Whitt,  June  12,  1847. 

Jno.  Gregory  and  Elizabeth  Maynard,  Aug,  3,  1774. 

Wm.  Bullington  and  Frances  Bradley,  April  17,  1790. 

Arthur  Hamiett  and  Sarah  CrutcMeld,  May  28,  1811. 

Wm.  Dennis  and  Jane  Parish,  dau.  of  Wm.  Parish,  March  5, 
1764. 

Thomas  Blanks  and  Julia  Warberton,  March  19,  1818. 

Littleberry  Hardyman  and  Elizabeth  Eppes,  April  12,  1784. 

Jno.  Lefrane  and  Jane  Boiling  Kenny,  April  15,  1781. 

Isaac  Lacy  and  Elizabeth  Walker,  Sept.  15,  1791. 

Chas.   Christian  and  Rebecca  Terrill,  June  3,   1772    (Wm. 
Christian's  consent). 

Brazure  Williams  and  Agathy  Johnson   (widow),  June  16, 
1762. 


Mabriaoe  Bonds  in  Charles  City  County.  195 

Jeremiah  Jackson  and  ;N"ancy  Bel],  Dec.  16,  1799,  Jno.  BelFs 
dau. 

Jno.  Christian  and  Mary  Maynard,  Feb.  3,  1768. 

Henry  Southall  and  Elizabeth  Holdsworth,  Dec.  27,  1793. 

Wm.  Southall  and  Sarah  Dudley,  March  3,  1780. 

Beverley  W.  Ammons  and  Jane  Frances  Snipes,  Oct.  21,  1847. 

Stephen  Bowry  and  Mary  Gregory  (widow),  Jan.  9,  1769. 

Geo.  Chandler  and  Rebecca  E.  Armstead,  June  16,  1825. 

Wni.  B.  i\Iorecocke  and  Ann  C.  Edloe,  Jan.  23,  1823. 

Wm.  Mahaney  and  Eleanor  Pointer,  July  18,  1829. 

Jno.  A.  Smith  and  Sarah  H.  Clayton,  Dec.  28,  1826. 

Wm.  Clarke  and  Ann  Leonard  (Spinster),  Sept.  4,  1781,  Wm. 
Leonard's  dau. 

Edward  Young  and  Jeannatte  StoU,  Aug.  21, 1815. 
"    Samuel  Willis  and  Hetty  Fotsct,  Oct.  2G,  1812. 

Richard  Apperson  and ,  ]^ov.,  1812. 

Wm.  Hewlett  and  Lucy  Roper,  May  6,  1797. 

Philip  Wallace  and  Elvy  Morris,  March  24,  1815,  Jas.  Morris's 
dau. 

Geo.  Loyd  and  Ann  Eshon,  Dec.  22,  1824. 

Jno.  Craddoek  and  Susan  H.  Taylor,  Jan.  15,  1820. 

Thos.  Batts  and  Betsy  Vaughan,  Oct.  30,  1806. 
1^    Wm.  Daniel  and  Polly  Martin,  June  18,  1793,  Martin  Martinis- 
dau. 

Wm.  Brown  and  Martha  Bassett  (Spinster),  May  28,  1767. 

Wm.  Hansirand  Judith  Crew,  Aug.  7,  1780. 
Wm.  Phillips  and  Susannah  Beekit,  Apr.  28,  1818. 

Geo.  Woodson  and  Delphia  White,  Sept.  11,  1806. 

Elijah  Crew  and  Sally  Evans,  Jan.  4,  1813. 

Wm.  B.  Page  and  Evelyn  B.  Nelson,  Nov.  27,  1811. 

Jno.  Lamb  and  Fanny  Finch  (Spinster),  Nov.  26,  1770,  Wm. 
Finch's  dau. 

Wm.  T.  Barlow  and  Susannah  Crew,  Feb.  25,  1817. 

Wm.  Yaughan  and  Ann  Dancy,  Sept,  13,  1768,  Jno.  Daney's 
dau. 

Hubbard  Wyatt  and  Tabitha  Minge,  July   23,   1767,   Geo. 
Minge's  dau, 

Seth  Stubbleiield  and  Lucy  Timberlake  Southall,  Jan.   15, 
1784. 


196  "William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

Archelus  Mitchell  and  Mary  Gregory   (Spinster),  Xov.   37, 
1763j  Jno.  Gregory's  daii. 

Wm.  Taylor  and  Mary  Lacy  Vaughan,  Sept.  9,  1811,  Henry 
Vaughan's  dau. 
/    Mathew  Wyat  Shields  and  Mary  E.  Bell,  Jan.  21,  1807. 

James  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Marston,  Jan.  17,  1763. 

Jno.  Carter  and  Elizabeth  Collins,  Jan.  12,  1787. 

AYm.  Chancey  and  Mary  Timberlake,  Jan.  5,  1783. 

Jno.  Ridlehurst  and  Judith  Miles  (Spinster),  May  2,  1764. 


MINOR  FAMILY. 

In  Ix)wer  Norfolk  county  records  there  is  a  power  of  attorney 
from  Meindert  Doodes  of  INTansemond.  In ,  Lancaster  county 
records  "Minor  Doodes  of  Lancaster  county  mariner,"  with  con- 
sent of  his  wife  Mary-,  deeds  to  Peter  Montague  200  acres  in  1665. 
There  is  an  act  of  the  General  Assembly  in  1673,  naturalizing 
Minor  Doodes  and  Doodes  Minor,  his  son.  (Hening's  Statutes  at 
Large,  IL,  308;   III.,  479). 

The  will  of  Minor  or  Meindert  Doodes  is  recorded  in  the  clerk's 
office  of  Middlesex  county,  and  bears  date  December  13^  1677. 
It  is  sealed  with  the"  wax  impression  of  a  galley. 

It  is  clear  that  Doodes  was  a  Dutch  ship  captain,  who  like 
many  other  sea-faring  people  settled  in  Virginia.  Until  the  pas- 
sage of  the  ]S^a7igation  law,  confining  the  trade  of  the  colonies 
to  Great  Britain,  a  great  many  Dutch  vessels  and  Dutch  people 
came  to  Virginia. 

The  will  of  his  wife  Mary  was  dated  September  17,  1678,  and 
was  proved  February  7, 16S6-'87.  She  died  on  Montague's  Island 
January  9,  1686-'87  (Middlesex  Parish  Register).  She  names 
son  Doodes  Meindert  and  Peter  Montague,  dau.  Marie  Monta- 
gue^s  daughter  Marie. 

Doodes  Minors  will  is  also  preserved  at  Saluda  in  the  clerk's 
office,  and  bears  date  November  13,  1694,  and  was  proved  May 
27,  1695. 

According  to  these  wills  and  other  records  of  the  county  of 
Middlesex — 

1.  MixoR  (^Jixdert)  Doodes  and  Mary,*  his  wife,  had  issue, 
2  Doodes  Minor  (Mindert),  3  Mary  m.  Peter  Montague,  son  of 


Minor  Family.  197 

Peter  Montague,  the  emigrant.      (See  "^lontague  Genealogy/' 

by  George  William  Montague,  1894.)  r 

2.  DooDES  Minor  (Minor  Doodes^)  married  Elizabeth,  perhaps 
a  dau.  of  Nicholas  Cock,  a  Dutchman  who  was  naturalized  in 
1672,  and  had  issue,  4  Elizabeth,  married  Tobias  Micklcborough, 
^  Minor,  bom  in  1670  (according  to  his  deposition),  6  AVilliam, 
7  Garrett,  baptized  April  13,  1679,  8  John,  baptized  September 
6,  1683,  9  Peter,  baptized  UsLich  7,  1685-'86.  Elizabeth  Minor 
survived  her  husband  and  married,  secondly,  Thomas  Blaise. 
Her  wall  was  proved  in  1708. 

5  MixoR^  Minor  (Doodes,-  Minor  Doodes^),  married  Eliza- 
beth Xorman  on  August  22,  1710,  and  died  December  3,  1716. 

7  Garrett^  Minor  (Doodes-,  Minor,  Doodes^)  was  a  justice 
of  Middlesex  county,  and  married  Diana,  dau.  of  John  Vivian, 
and  Margaret  his  wife,  on  October  17,  1706.  She  died  April  16, 
1718,  and  he  on  Februar}^  2,  1720.    Issue,  10  John  Minor,  born  V 

June  29,  1707.    Perhaps  other  children.      ^M     xU   '^'^^^^f/^J'^, 

10  John*  Minor  (Garrett^  Doodes-,  MinoTDoodes^)  was  aji^  ; '' '  ""^ 
influential  and  wealthy  planter  of  Spotsylvania  county,  one  of 
the  justices,  etc.  He  married  Sarah  Carr,  daughter  of  Capt. 
Thomas  and  Marv  (Dabney)  Carr  and  sister  of  Agnes  Carr,  who 
niarne'dTCol.  John  Waller,  and  of  Thomas  Carr  and  John  Carr 
(sons  of  Major  Thomas  Carr,  and  grandsons  of  "Thomas  Carr, 
Gentleman,"  the  emigrant  to  Virginia).  The  will  of  John 
Minor,  dated  October  28,  1754,  was  proved  in  Spotsylvania  Sep- 
tember 2,  1755.  To  his  children  he  left  lands  in  Spotsylvania, 
Culpeper,  Orange  and  Louisa  counties;  to  Ms  wife  the  home 
tract  during  life  and  his  chaise,  horses  and  harness ;  to  his  eldest 
son  John  his  silver  watch,  troopers  arms  and  one  hundred 
pounds  current  money  and  a  gold  ring  with  poesy  "no  recompense 
but  Love,"  with  this  proviso  "that  he  shall  relinquish  all  claim 
against  my  estate  for  the  use  I  have  had  of  negro  Harry  and  Top- 
ping Castle  from  Mrs.  Carrs  death;"  names  sons  John,  William, 
Thomas,  Garrett,  James,  Dabney,  Vivion,  Peter,  daus.  Mary  and 
Elizabeth;  desires  his  friends  Jolin  Carr,  John  Waller,  Eice  Cur- 
tis and  William  Carr  to  divide  his  slaves  and  stock  of  cattle.  In 
ease  his  wife  marries  desires  his  son  John,  and  if  he  died,  his  son 

*  Among  the  foreigners  naturalized  in  1C73  was  Garrett  Johnson;  so 
as  Mary  Minor  had  a  grandson  Garrett,  she  may  have  been  a  daughter 
or  sister  of  Garrett  Johnson. 


198  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

William  to  act  as  guardian  of  "all  my  children/'  and  makes  his 
son  John  and  wife  executors. 

His  inventory  exhibits  a  very  large  estate.  The  will  of  his  wife 
Sarah  Minor  is  dated  September  25,  1772,  and  is  recorded  in 
Spotsylvania.  John  Minor  and  Sarah  Carr,  his  wife,  had  issue : 
11  John,  12  William,  b.  Aug.  30,  1738;  13  Thomas,  b.  Aug. 
5,  1740,  m.  Mary  Dabney;  U  Mary,  b.  March  7,  1742,  d. 
1818,- m.  itiward  Hc'rndon  Aug.  15,  1765;  15  Garrett,  b. 
March  4,  1744,  died  June  25,  1799,  m.  Mary  0.  Terrill  (b. 
May  22,  1750,  d.  Oct.  30,  1830)  •  16  James,  b.  Feb.  18,  1745,  d. 
June  9,  1791,  m.  June  29,  1773," Mary  Carr  (b.  Sept.  14,  1726, 
d.  July  17,  1797);  17  Diana,  b.  Feb.  28,  1747,  d.  March  28, 
1748;  18  Dabney,  b.  June  11,  1749,  (\.  Xov.  7,  1799,  m.  Ann 
Anderson  Oct.  12,  1773;  19  Vivian,  m.  Elizabeth  Dick;  20  Eliza- 
beth, b.  Aug.  3,  1752,  d.  1786,  m.  Col.  James  Lewis,  of  Laurel 
Hill;  21  Peter,  b.  Aug.  16,  1754,  d.  1793,  m.  Miss  Jones.  (Fam- 
ily Bible  and  traditions.) 

{To  he  continued.) 


Will  of  Minor  (Mindert,  Mindote)  Doodes. 

In  the  name  of  God  Amen  I  Mindote  Doodes  being  weake  in  body  but 
of  sound  and  perfect  Memory  doe  Ordaine  this  my  Last  will  and  Testa- 
ments Firsts  I  doe  bequeathe  my  sole  to  God.  that  give  it  and  mv  body  to 
be  buried  in  Christian  buriall  at  the  diseretione  of  my  Executor  or  Ex- 
ecujtrix  hereafter  nominated. 

Item  My  Debts  being  firste  paide  I  leave  my  hole  persnall  estate  in 
the  hands  of  my  loving  wife  Mary  Doodes  during  the  time  of  her  wid- 
dowhood  and  if  Inkase  she  should  marry  againe  then  my  will  is  thatt 
my  sonn  Doodes  Minor's  children  shall  have  the  one  half  of  my  Negroes 
forthwith  delivered  into  the  possession  of  there  father  for  the  sole  use 
&  behoufe  of  them  wliile  such  time  that  it  shall  please  God  to  take  him 
away  &  then  to  Rr-dound  to  the  use  of  there  Mother  during  the  time  of 
her  widowhood  &  afterwards  to  them  solely  &  Inkase  of  the  Mortality  of 
Ither  without  issue  the  survivors  to  succeed  thereon  and  the  other  half 
to  be  forthwith  delivered  into  the  possession  of  Peter  Montague  for  the 
sole  use  of  his  wife  whitch  is- now  living  and  afterwards  to  the  sole  use 
of  her  children  &  inkase  of  the  Mortality  of  Ither  of  them  without  Issue 
the  Survivore  to  succeed  thereon  as  abovesd  &  soe  to  Remaine  them  &- 
there  Increase  male  and  female  &  not  to  be  sould  nor  Morgadged  &  fur- 
Increase  male  and  female  &  not  to  be  sould  nor  Morgadged  &  fur- 
ther my  will  is  tliat  the  two  ould  Negroes  Degoe  &  Pallis  his  wife  shall 
serve  but  ten  years  after  my  desease  &  then  to  be  free  &  Doe  make  my 
loving  wife  Mary  Doodes  &  my  loving  friend  William  Chance  mv  sole 


Minor  Family.  199 

Executor  &  Executrix  to  see  my  will  truly  performed  in  witness  whereof 
I  here  unto  sett  my  hand  and  seale  the  13  day  of  December  1G77. 

&  None  of  My  other  Negroes  to  serve  any  longer  than  fourty  five 
yeares  a.  sold  them  nor  there  Increase. 

Maindort  Doodes   {Seal). 
William  Chance 
Silvt  Blizard 

Probat   in   Cur   Com   Midds   7    Die  January    1677    at 
Recordat  9  die  sequent     Teste  Chr  Robinson  Clerk. 

WILL  OF  DOODES  MINOR  (MINDERT). 

In  the  name  of  God.  Amen.  I  Doodes  Minor  of  the  County  of  Mid- 
dlesex being  of  sound  and  Perfect  mind  and  ]Memory  Do  make  and  ordain 
this  my  last  will  and  testament  in  manner  and  form  following  and  first 
and  chiefly  I  bequeath  my  soul  to  God  who  gave  it  hoping  through  the  mer- 
its of  my  Blessed  Lord  and  Saviour  Christ  Jesus  to  obtain  perfect  forgive- 
ness and  Remission  of  all  my  sins  and  as.  touching  such  worldly  goods  as 
God  of  his  great  goodness  hath  bestowed  upon  me  I  do  Dispose  of  the 
same  as  followeth,  and  do  commit  m.y  body  to  ye  earth  from  whence  it 
was  taken  to  be  Decently  buried  at  ye  Discretion  of  my  Exrs  hereafter 
named. 

Imp  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  loving  son  Minor  Minor  my  seal  gold 
ring. 

Item  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  loving  grand  Daughter  Elizabeth 
Miekleburrough  one  Silver  Mugg  to  be  Delivered  to  her  immediately 
after  my  now  wife's  dissease  or  if  she  should  marry  then  this  to  be  deliv- 
ered as  aforesd. 

Item  I  lend  unto  my  loving  wife  Elizabeth  Minor  During  her  wid- 
dowhood  all  and  singular  my  goods  and  chattels  of  what  nature  or 
quality  soever  the  same  may  be  together  w^th  all  Debts  whatsoever  and  it 
is  my  will  that  ye  same  Do  Remain  upon  my  now  dwelling  plantation 
to  be  managed  as  she  shall  think  convenient  During  her  widdowhood  as 
aforesd  and  when  she  shall  Intermarry  (or  at  her  death)  then  I  give  the 
same  as  is  aforesd  to  my  fower  sons,  that  is  to  say.  Minor  Minor  Wm 
Minor  Garat  Minor  &  Peter  Minor  to  be  equally  Divided  Between  them. 

Item  It  is  my  will  that  my  loving  w4fe  Elizabeth  Minor  Do  Remain 
upon  and  be  peaceably  possessed  wtii  my  dwelling  plantation  During 
her  widdowhood  and  also  that  she  have  liberty  to  fell  and  make  use  of 
any  timber  upon  any  part  of  my  land  for  ye  good  and  Benefit  of  ye  sd 
plantation. 

Item  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  loving  sons  Minor  Minor,  Wm  Minor 
Garat  Minor  &.  Peter  Minor  all  and  every  part  and  parsill  of  Land  wch 
I  die  possessed  of  in  the  upper  part  of  this  Coiinty  of  ZJiddlesex  to  be 
equally  divided  Between  them  to  them  and  to  their  Lawiull  heirs  for- 
ever and  if  any  of  them  shall  dy  wthout  such  heirs  then  and  in  such  a 
case  it  is  my  will  that  their  part  of  my  land  Be  equally  Divided  among 
my  surviving  Children. 

Item    I  do  Constitute  and  appoint  my  loving  wife  Elizabeth  Minor 


200  WlLLIx^M  AND  ]\[aRY  COLLEGE  QUAKTERLY. 

and  my  loving  sons  Minor  ]\Iinor  and  Wm  Minor  to  be  my  Lawfull  Exrs. 
of  this  my  last  will  and  testament  and  I  Doe  request  my  loving  friends 
MrMaurice  Cock  Air  Tobias  Mickleburrough  Mr  Wm  Montague  and  Jno 
Smith  to  make  an  equall  Division  of  my  land  and  other  estate  at  time 
appointed  Between  my  then  surviving  sons  having  regard  to  the  quality 
and  after  Division  it  is  my  will  yt  my  eldest  son  when  he  shall  come  of 
age  to  have  his  first  Choyce  and  so  successively  as  tliey  shall  come  of 
age  to  be  Possessed  with  their  part  or  share  of  land  and  I  do  deliver  this 
to  the  world  as  my  last  will  and  testament  making  Voyd  all  former  wills 
by  me  made. 

In  testimony  whereof  I  do  liereunto  sett  my  hand  and  fix  my  seal 
this  13th  day  of  November  Anno.  1G94. 

These  words  Interlined  before  signing  (upon  their  part  of:    of  Land). 

DooDEs  ]\Ii-\OR  ( Seal ) . 

Signed  and  Sealed  in  Presence  of  Maurice  Cock  Nicolas  Curtis 
Arthur  Hancock  John  Smith, 

Att  a  Court  held  for  the  County  of  Middlesex  &c  ye  2'^^  day  of  ZMay 
1695  Mr.  Maurice  Cock  Mr.  Jno  Smith  and  Arthur  Hancock  made  oath 
that  they  see  the  above  named  Doodes  Minor  sign  seal  and  publish  the 
above  wTitten  will  to  be  his  last  will  and  testament  and  that  he  was 
then  in  perfect  mind  and  memory. 

Teste  Edwin  Thackek,  Clerk. 

Recordat. 


CHLTECHILL  FAMILY. 

{Continued  from  page  47.) 

Elizabeth  ED^toxiA^  Churchill,  only  child  of  22  Thomas 
E.*  Churchill  (William.^,  Armistead-,  William^)  married  her 
cousin  Thomas  kelson  Berkeley,  of  ^^Airwell/'  Hanover  county. 
She  married,  secondly,  Eev.  John  Cooke,  the  then  rector  of  the 
parish.  Issue  hy  first  marriage,  Mary  E.,  who  married  Mr.  Xo- 
land,  of  Hanover.  Issue  by  second  marriage,  five  children; 
Charles,  Elizabeth  Berkeley,  Anne,  James  Churchill,  John  Mc- 
pherson. 

Eliza  C.  Derby  (born  November  7,  1795),  daughter  of  24 
Lucy  Harrison  Churchill  and  John  Derby,  married  William  Fitz- 
hugh,  of  Stalf-rd  county,  and  left  a  large  family,  "most  of  whom 
are  still  living  in  and  about  Fredericksburg.''' 

11  Armistead^  Churchill  (Armistead,-  William^)  married 
Elizabeth  Blackwell.  dau.  of  Col.  William  Blackwell,  of  Fau- 
quier county  {Llaydcn,  p.  2G7),  moved  to  Kentucky  in  the  year 
1787  from.  Warronton,  Va.  He  had  issue,  25  William,  26  Henry, 
37  John,  'i^  Samuel^,  and  dans. 


CnuRcniLL  Family.  201 

28  Samuel*  Churchill  (ArmistoarP,  Amiistoad-,  William^) 
married  Abby  Oldham,  "daughter  of  Col.  William  Oldham,  who 
commanded  the  Kentucky  troops  at  Gen.  St.  Clair's  defeat  1791. 
He  was  a  gallant  and  distinguished  officer  and  fell  in  that  un- 
fortunate battle,  and  his  name  is  now  inscribed  upon  that  monu- 
ment at  Frankfort,  Ky.,  which  she  has  erected  in  memory  of  her 
honored  dead.  Col.  Oldham  was  an  ensign  and  lieutenant  in  the 
war  of  the  Eevolution,  and  was  the  first  magistrate  in  the  county 
of  Jefferson,  Ky."    Issue : 

29  Armistead  Ludwell,  who  married  ^liss  Catlott,  of  Ken- 
tucky, 30  Samuel  Bullitt,  married  Amelia  Walker,  of  St.  Louis, 
postmaster  under  President  Tyler,  31  William  Henry,  married 
Kate  Clark,  of  Louisville,  32  John  Pope,  married  Miss  Xicholas. 
of  Louisville,  33  Thomas,  J./'  34  Charles  Thniston,  who  married 
Sue  Payne,  3-5  Mary,  who  married  Charles  W.  Thruston,  36 
Abby,  who  maiTied  Meriwether  Clark,  son  of  Gov.  Clark,  who 
with  L-ewis  discovered  the  mouth  of  the  Columbia  river,  37 
Emily,  who  married  Hampden  Lane,  of  Wheeling,  38  Julia  Pres- 
ton, who  married  Dr.  Luke  Blackburn,  Governor  of  Kentuck}', 
39  Belle,  who  married  A.  McCreer}',  of  St.  Louis.  Thomas  J. 
Churchill,  Mrs.  Lane  and  Mrs.  Blackburn  are  all  that  survive 
(1899). 

33  Thomas  J.^  Churchill  (Samuel"^,  Armistead^  Armistead-, 
William^)  married  "Anne  S.  Sevier,  daughter  of  Ambrose  H. 
Sevier,  who  was  United  States  senator  from  Arkansas,  and  after- 
wards minister  plenipotentiar}^  to  Mexico,  to  ratify  the  treaty  of 
peace  between  the  two  countries.  Miss  Sevier  is  the  grandniece 
of  Gov.  John  Sevier  of  Eevolutionary  fame,  who  commanded 
a  regiment  at  King's  Mountain,  and  who  covered  himself  with 
^lory  in  that  battle.  She  is  also  a  great  niece  of  Eichard  M. 
Johnson,  who  was  Vice-President  of  the  United  States.  She  is 
also  a  granddaughter  of  Judge  Ben  Johnson,  of  Arkansas,  who 
was  United  States  District  Judge  of  Arkansas. 

Thomas  J.  Churchill  served  as  first  lieutenant  in  the  war  with 
IMexico;  was  appointed  postmaster  at  Little  Rock  b}'  President 
Buchanan.  Entered  the  service  in  the  Confederate  army  as  a 
colonel,  and  was  promoted  for  gallant  conduct,  first  as  a  briga- 
dier and  afterwards  as  a  major  general  in  the  Confederate  army. 
In  1867  he  was  elected  lieutenant  governor  of  Arkans:]s,  but  was 


202  William  and  Maky  College  Quarterly. 

not,  under  the  Eeconstruction  act,  allowed  to  take  his  scat.  Irk 
1874,  in  what  was  known  as  the  Brooks  and  Baxter  war,  was  put 
in  command  of  the  State  troops,  and  wrested  the  State  from 
Radical  rule,  was  elected  State  treasurer  for  three  successive 
terms,  and  in  1880  was  chosen  Governor  of  the  State.'^ 
{To  he  continued.) 


COLLIERS  OF  YORK  COUNTY. 

John  Lockey  and  Thomas  Griffith,  both  prominent  merchants 
of  London,  traded  in  tobacco  with  Virginia,  and  Col.  Richard 
Lee  appointed  them  in  1G63  his  executors.  {Lee  of  Virginia,  p. 
64.)  John  Lockey  died  in  lGG5-'6,  leaving  a  widow  Elizabeth, 
who  married  Stanford,  and  two  daughters,  Elizabeth  and  Cath- 
erine Lockey.  {New  England  Historical  and  Geneaological 
Magazine  46,  p.  77.)  In  1660  William  Collis,  of  Y^ork  county, 
Va.,  deposed  that  Edward  Lockey,  a  prominent  merchant  of  that 
place,  was  brother  of  Mr.  John  Lockey,  merchant  of  London. 
This  Edward  Lockey  was  administrator  in  1657  of  Capt.  Fran- 
cis Morgan,  an  early  justice  and  settler  of  York  county,  wha 
left  one  son  of  the  same  name  heir  of  his  large  estate.  In  1659 
Edward  Lockey  married  Elizabeth,  widow  of  John  Read,  dec'd. 
On  Oct.  10,  1661,  he  married  Elizabeth,  widow  of  Major  John 
Hansford,  father  of  Col.  Thomas  Hansferd,  hanged  in  Bacon's 
Rebellion.  In  1667,  while  in  the  parish  of  St.  Catherine 
Creechurch,  London,  he  died  without  children  and  left  a  large 
estate  to  collaterals.  He  gave  a  plantation  called  Morgan's 
Plantation  to  his  "cousin'^  *  Isaac  Collier,  son  of  Isaac  Collier. 
Sen.,  Read's  plantation  to  his  wife  Elizabeth  for  life,  and  then  to 
Isaac  Collier,  Jun.,  as  also  to  him  a  plantation  of  320  acres  at 
Mattapony,  bought  of  John  ^Eadison  (in  King  William  county). 
There  w^ere  certain  legacies  left  to  Isaac  Lockey,  Jun.,  to  the- 
three  daughters  of  his  nephew  Edward  Lockey,  viz.,  Mary,  Annt3- 
and  Judith  Lockey,  and  to  William  Carter,  son  of  Francis  Car- 
ter. 

In  1667  Richard  Walton,  citizen  and  merchant  tailor  of  Lon- 
don, and  True,  his  wife,  daughter  of  ''Elizabeth  Friend  als. 
Lockey,  the  natural  sister  of  Edward  Lockey,  late  of  York  River. 
in  Virginia  in  parts  beyond  the  seas,  merchant,  who  lately  de- 


Colliers  of  York  County.  205 

ceased  here  in  London/'  appointed  as  their  attorneys  John  Baske- 
vyle,  gent.,  clerk  of  York  Court  in  Virginia  aforesaid,  Riehard 
Bnshrod,  in  Mock-Jack  Bay  in  Virginia  aforesaid,  merchant,  and 
Robert  Baldry,  in  Virginia  aforesaid,  gent.  In  1GG8,  Mr.  John 
Mihill  as  intermarrying  with  Mary  Lockey  is  ordered  to  pay 
unto  Dr.  Thomas  Iladdon  "three  hundred  and  ten  pounds  of 
tobaccoe  and  caske  convenient  in  Yorke  Co.,  the  same  being  due 
for  physicke  administered  and  attendance  on  her  in  her  season- 
in  by  y^  appointm'^  and  order  of  her  dec'd  uncle,  Edward  Lockey. 
with  court  charges." 

In  1671,  as  Isaac  Collier,  Jun.,  was  dead  and  William  Carter 
was  absent  and  supposed  to  be  dead,  the  General  Court  ordered 
that  Judith  Lockey,  who  had  married  Henry  Cary,  should  have 
the  legacies  left  Collier  and  Carter,  "land  excepted  which  is  ad- 
judged to  the  brother  of  said  Isaac  Collier."  (General  Court 
Records,  MSS.) 

Isaac  Collier's  inventory  is  recorded  in  Elizabeth  City  in  1675. 
Isaac  Collier,  Sr's.,  will  was  proved  in  York  county,  May  y®  24'-^, 

168S.    His  wife  then  was  ^lary ,  and  he  names  children 

(1)  Charles,  (2)  Abraham,  (3)  Thomas,  (4)  Sarah. 

It  is  probable  that  Thomas  Collier  was  eldest  son,  as  in  1693 
he,  as  brother  of  Isaac  Collyer,  dec'd,  sold  Morgan's  plantation, 
on  York  river,  to  Dudley  Digges,  of  Warwick  county,  gent. 
Thomas  was  dead  in  1704,  and  so  perhaps  wa^  Abraham,  since 
Charles  names  in  his  will  only  wife  Mary  Collier,  sister  Sarah 
Whitaker  and  daughter  Mary  Collier  (who  also  probably  soon 
died).  In  1711  only  Charles  and  Sarah  survived,  since  in  that 
year  Charles  Collier  and  Judith,  his  wife,  and  William  Whitaker 
and  Sarah  (Collier),  his  wife,  sold  land  wdiich  had  been  de- 
vised by  Isaac  Collier,  Sen.,  to  all  his  children. 

Charles  Colliers  will  was  proved  Aug.  20,  1722,  and  it  names 
children  (1)  Charles,  (2)  Thomas,  (3)  Eliza  and  wife  Judith. 
dith.     . 

Frequently  in  -uills  at  this  time  the  eldest  son,  who  was  pro- 
vided for  by  law,  is  omitted.  Isaac  Collier*  married  Ann  Vines, 
dau.  of  Thomas  Vines  (will  proved  in  York  county),  and  had 
issue  (1)  Thomas,  (2)  Judith,  (3)  Vines,  (4)  Charles. 

[To  he  continued.'] 


204  WILLIA3I  AND  MaRT  COLLEGE  QUAUTERLY. 

HISTORICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL  NOTES. 
Art  of  Painting  in  Yiuginia. — "Dr.  Beilby  Porteus,  late 
bishop  of  London,  was  the  youngest  but  one  of  nineteen  chil- 
dren, and  was  born  at  York  on  the  8th  of  May,  1731.  His 
father  and  mother  were  natives  of  Virginia,  in  North  xVraerica. 
They  were  both  descended  from  good  families,  and  during  their 
residence  in  that  colony  were  on  a  footing  with  its  princij^al  in- 
habitants, to  many  of  whom  they  were  allied.  His  father  was 
of  no  profession;  but,  being  born  to  what  in  that  country  was 
<?onsidered  as  an  independent  fortune,  lived  upon  his  own  es- 
tate. It  consisted  chiefly  of  plantations  of  tobacco,  and  on  one 
of  these,  called  Newbottle  from  a  village  of  that  name  near 
Edinburg,  but  now  in  possession  of  the  Marquis  of  Lothian,  he 
usually  resided.  The  house  stood  upon  a  rising  ground  with  a 
gradual  descent  to  York  river,  which  was  there  at  least  two 
miles  over;  and  here  he  enjoyed  within  himself  every  comfort 
and  convenience  that  a  man  of  moderate  wishes  could  desire, 
living  without  the  burden  of  taxes  and  preserving  under  the 
powerful  protection  of  this  kingdom  peace,  plenty  and  security. 
The  bishop  had  a  singular  picture,  which,  though  not  in  the  best 
style  of  coloring,  was  yet  thought  valuable  by  Sir  Joshua  Piey- 
nolds,  as  a  specimen  of  the  extent  which  the  art  of  painting  had 
at  that  time  reached  in  America;  and  he  himself  very  highly 
prized  it  as  exhibiting  a  faithful  and  interesting  representation 
of  his  father's  residence.  His  mother's  name  was  Jenings. 
She  was  said  to  be  distantly  related  to  Sarah  Jenings,  the  wife 
of  John,  Duke  of  Marlborough,  and  two  of  her  ancestors,  Sir 
Edmund  and  Sir  Jonathan  Jenings,  lived  at  Eipon  in  York- 
shire, for  which  place  it  appears  they  were  both  representatives 
in  Parliament  in  the  reign  of  James  the  second.  Her  father, 
Colonel  Jenings,  was  Sir  Edmund's  son  and  the  first  of  the 
family  who  settled  in  Virginia,  where  he  was  superintendent  for' 
Indian  affairs  for  that  province,  became  afterwards  one  of  tjie 
Supreme  Council,  and  for  some  time  acted  as  Deputy  Governor  of 
the  colony.  The  principal  reason  which  induced  the  bishop's 
father  to  quit  a  situation  so  perfectly  independent  and  com- 
fortable as  that  in  America  was  the  desire  of  procuring  for  his 
children  better  instruction  than  he  could  there  obtain.  His 
health,  besides,  had  been  much  impaired  by  the  climate.    These 


Historical  and  Genealogical  Notes.  205 

causes  combined  determined  him  at  length  to  leave  the  county 
and  remove  to  England,  wliich  he  accordingly  did  in  1720,  and 
fixed  himself  in  the  city  of  York." — The  Life  of  the  Right  Rev- 
erend Beilhij  Portcus,  D.  D.,  late  Bishop  of  London.  By  the 
Eev.  Eobert  Hodgson,  Dean  of  Carlisle. 

Will  of  Francis  Dade^  alias  ]\[ajor  John  Smith.  (Ilayden's 
Yirginia  Genealogies,  p.  731..)  The  following  is  sent  me  by  Dr. 
Christopher  Johnston  from  the  records  of  the  Provincial  Court 
of  Maryland  (Lib.  B.  B.,  fol.  44)  : 

2  Sepf,  1G63.  William  Storke,  aged  39  years  or  thereabouts. 
Swome  this  first  day  of  May,  1663.  Sa}i:h  uppon  Oath.  That 
M^  ffrancis  Dade  comming  out  of  England  this  last  shipping  in 
y®  Maryland  Merchant,  whereof  is  Master  Capt.  ]\Iiles  Cooke  and 
falling  sick  att  sea.  In  time  of  his  sickness  hee  called  for  this 
Depend  Desyring  him  to  take  notice,  and  beare  in  memory 
what  his  Last  Will  was.  W'^^  will  was  only  verball  or  nuncupa- 
tive in  these  words  (as  neare  as  hee  this  Depon^  can  remember, 
or  to  y^  very  same  efiiect)  viz*,  That  hee  gave  all  his  whole  es- 
tate to  his  wife.  And  y*  his  wife  should  have  the  Tuition  of  his 
children  ^till  they  come  to  age.  And  y'  shee  should  give  to  his 
children  their  severall  portions,  whereas  they  should  attaine  to 
one  and  Twenty  yeares  of  age,  according  to  her  discretion  as  shee 
should  think  fitt.  After  y*  ^Ir.  Dade  had  declared  thus  much 
this  Depon^  called  Capt.  Miles  Cooke  unto  him.  And  the  y*  s^ 
Mr.  Dade  repeated  the  same  words  (or  to  y^'  effect)  over  againe 
in  both  their  hearings  and  further  this  deponent  sayth  not. 
Swome  before  me,  W^ill™  Storke. 

William  Bretton. 

Capt.  Miles  Cooke  swome  y®  same  day  sayth.  That  !Mr. 
Storke  called  him  to  Mr.  Dade  Lying  sick.  And  that  M""  Dade 
made  his  nuncupative  will  in  y*  same  words  (or  to  y®  same  effect) 
as  is  above  sett  downe  in  M'"  Storke's  Oath,  and  further  sayth  not. 
Swome  before  mee,  Miles  Cooke. 

Will"'  Bretton. 

Letters  of  Hume  Family  (see  p.  84).  W.  Madden,  Esq., 
of  BerT\iek  on  Tweed,  England,  points  out  some  errors  in  the 
notice  on  page  84.  (1)  The  father  of  George  Hume,  the  Vir- 
ginia emigrant,  was  not  Laird  George  Hume,  a  title  implying  a 
man  who  owned  a  few  fields,  but  Lord  GcK)rge  Hume.    The  far- 


206  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

descended  Lord  of  Wedderburn  would  have  smiled  at  being  des- 
ignated Laird.  Nor  was  ho  of  Wedderburn  Castle,  his  residence.. 
but  of  Wedderburn,  his  barony.  (2)  The  battle  of  Preston 
Pans  was  fought  on  Sept.  21,  1745.  The  battle  of  Preston,  the 
one  intended,  was  fought  Nov.  13,  1715.  Francis  Hume,  of 
Quixwood,  advocate,  "with  his  brother  the  Laird  of  Wedder- 
burn, and  probably  George  the  Virginia  emigrant,  joined  the 
Pretender.  Francis  Hume  was  never  sold  in  Virginia  as  a  ser- 
vant, for  a  letter  from  him  states  that  the  governor  had  no  in- 
structions, and  he  could  go  where  he  liked  in  Virginia.  Mr. 
Madden  can  give  full  details  of  the  sum  paid  by  ^Mr.  Ninian 
Home  to  save  his  kinsman  Francis  from  being  sold  as  a  ser\'ant. 
(3)  [p.  86,  90]  Isabel  Hume  did  not  marry  her  "cousin  Ninian 
Home  of  Jardensfield,"  as  there  was  no  such  person,  but  she  did 
marry  strongly  against  her  father's  will,  and  who  ignored  him 
in  his  will  for  it,  Alexander  Home^  of  Jardensfield,  eldest  son 
by  his  first  marriage  with  Mary  Daes,  of  Eev.  Ninian  Home  of 
Billie.  The  latter  married  as  his  second  wife  Margaret,  the 
eldest  of  the  Wedderburn  ladies — strange  result,  father  and  son 
married  to  two  sisters.  (4)  The  last  letter  (p.  90)  cannot  have 
been  written  by  N.  Home,  as  it  is  clearly  the  letter  of  Alexander 
Home.  No  doubt  the  contracted  A  (for  Alexander)  was  taken 
for  N. ;  his  son  Ninian,  to  whom  he  refers  as  settled  at  St. 
Xophers,  ultimately  became  governor  of  New  Grenada.  The 
son  George,  who  is  said  to  be  following  business  as  a  writer  to 
the  signet  at  Edinburgh,  ultimately  held  the  important  office  of 
clerk  of  the  Court  of  Sessions  (see  Col.  Milne  Home's  article  on 
—  Flodden  Banner) .  On  extinction  of  all  his  grandfather's  family 
by  second  marriage  he  became  laird  of  Wedderburn,  Billie  and 
Patton,  and  was  the  last  male  Home  (tho'  not  a  complete  Wed- 
derburn) who  held  these  estates. 

Brickmakixg  (see  page  80  and  Century  Magazine  for  Feb- 
ruary, 1896).  The  editor  has  been  at  some  pains  to  contradict 
the  prevailing  impression  that  our  old  brick-houses  were  made 
of  "imported  brick."  The  following  extract  kindly  sent  by  Mr. 
A.  A.  Folsom,  of  Boston,  shows  that  as  in  Virginia,  so  in  Massa- 
chusetts, the  people  knew  all  about  brickmaking : 

General  Court,  held  at  Boston,  May  28,  1679.— It  is  Ordered 
by  this  Court  and  the  Authority  thereof,  that  clay  to  make 
Bricks  shall  be  digged  before  the  first  of  November,  and  turned 


Historical  and  Genealogical  Notes.  207 

over  in  the  IMoneth  of  February  and  March  ensuing  a  moneth  be- 
fore it  be  wrought ;  and  that  no  Person  temper  their  Bricks  with 
salt  or  brackish  water;  and  that  the  sise  of  Bricks  be  nine  inches 
long,  two  and  a  quarter  inches  thick,  and  four  and  a  half  inches 
broad;  and  that  all  moulds  used  for  making  of  Bricks  l>e  made 
according  to  these  sizes,  and  well  shod  with  iron:  And  what 
person  or  persones  soever,  shall  make  Bricks  in  any  respect  con- 
trary to  this  Order,  in  the  several  particulars  of  it,  shall  forfeit 
the  one  half  of  such  Bricks  to  the  use  of  the  Treasury  of  the 
Town  where  they  are  made. 

Bayard  (p.  134). — In  reply  to  the  question  about  the  name  of 
Bayard  in  your  October  number,  I  will  quote  from  a  very-  inter- 
esting book,  entitled,  "Genealogical  Collections  concerning  the 
Sirname  of  Baird,  from  the  Original  MSS.  of  Wm.  Baird,  Esq.. 
Auchmedden,  Scotland:" 

"'The  old  spelling  of  the  name  was  Bard,  Barde,  Beard,  Byrd 
and  Bayard."    (Page  2,  page  8.) 

Peter  du  Terrail,  Seigneur  de  Bayard,  flourished  at  this  time. 
He  was  originally  of  Dauphiny,  and  commonly  termed  the 
Chevalier  de  Bayard,  but  was  called  by  the  writers,  in  his  own 
time,  "the  good  knight  without  fear  and  without  reproach."  Upon 
his  giving  the  Swiss  a  total  defeat,  Francis  I.  did  him  the  honor 
to  be  knighted  by  him.  He  was  born  in  1476  at  the  Castle  of 
Bayard,  and  his  family  held  a  very  distinguished  rank  among 
the  first  nobility  of  Dauphiny.  It  was  one  of  the  houses  which 
in  that  province  was  honored  with  the  title  of  the  scarlet  nobil- 
ity, by  which  the  ancient  nobility  was  distinguished  from  those 
who  were  created  by  Louis  XL,  whom,  when  he  invaded  Dau- 
phiny, he  made  without  distinction,  if  they  paid  him  well.  The 
chevalier's  great-great-grandfather  was  killed  at  the  battle  of 
Poictiers,  Sept.  19,  1356:  his  great-grandfather  at  the  battle  of 
Agincourt;  his  grandfather  in  that  of  ^lont-l'berg,  a.nd  his 
father  was  dangerously  wounded  at  Guinegate.  But  the  military 
glory  of  the  chevalier  eclipsed  that  of  all  his  ancestors.  He  died 
April,  1524,  of  a  wound  received  with  a  musket-ball  in  a  defeat 
which  the  French  suffered  at  Eel)ec,  in  Italy,  when  he  served  with 
the  Admiral  Bonnivet. 

All  of  the  historians  of  that  celebrated  age  celebrate  his  loy- 
alty, valor  and  virtue.    The  chevalier  never  married. 

Page  8. — One  Colonel  Nicholas  Ba}'ard,  of  Xew  York,  was 


208  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

tried  for  a  conspiracy  against  King  William  and  condemned,  but 
reprieved.  Probably  he  was  of  French  extraction,  and  settled 
in  that  province  among  the  Butch;  and  April  12,  1779,  Robert 
Bayard  was  Major  of  the  60th  Regiment. 

Mr. Baird  and  his  wife,  Mary  Bedent,  born  in  Scotland, 

were  the  parents  of  William,  Zebulon  and  Bedent  Baird  and  sis- 
ters, with  other  brothers.  These  were  all  born  in  Scotland,  and 
settled  in  ISTew  Jersey,  near  Xewark.  Some  remained  there, 
while  William,  Zebulon  and  Andrew  moved  to  Xorth  Carolina. 

William  married  Margaret  O'Reily,  of  Ireland.  They  moved 
to  Burke  county,  ^N".  C,  near  their  son  Andrew.  The  Bedents 
and  Bairds  were  very  brave  soldiers  in  the  Colonial  army. 

What  w^as  their  coat-of-arms,  and  from  what  portion  of  Scot- 
land did  they  come?  John  Baird  of  the  above  family  was  one  of 
the  party  who  threw  the  tea  overboard  in  Boston  Harbor. — 
M.  C.  T. 

Stone — Clendenin — Myers — Catchings.    Queries. 

Will  some  one  kindly  tell  me  if  Mourning  Stone,  who  mar- 
ried Col.  Ambrose  Mills  (the  latter  born  in  1723),  was  related 
to  Thos.  Stone,  of  Maryland,  signer  of  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence? She  was  a  native  of  Maryland  or  Virginia.  Who 
were  her  parents  ? 

Who  were  the  brothers  and  sisters  of  Thomas  Clendenin,  who 
came  from  Scotland  and  settled  in  Mar}dand  prior  to  the  Revo- 
lutionary war?  He  married  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Hazlett,  of  Cecil 
county,  Maryland,  and  afterwards  moved  to  Fishing  Creek,  S.  C. 
where  he  joined  the  Colonial  army,  under  Gen.  Francis  Marion, 
From  what  part  of  Scotland  did  he  come,  and  who  were  his 
parents  ? 

If  the  family  tradition  that  Rudolf  Myers,  of  South  Carolina, 
who  owned  large  plantations  on  the  Congaree  and  Wateree  rivers, 
was  a  Baron  before  leaving  Switzerland  for  America  can  be  sub- 
stantiated by  history,  I  would  be  grateful  for  the  knowledge; 
also  that  his  brother  John  was  a  Roman  Catholic  priest  in 
Switzerland. 

In  what  year  did  the  first  members  of  the  "Catchings"  family 
come  to  America,  and  from  what  locality  in  England  ? 

I  would  like  to  know  who  were  the  parents  of  Thomas  Holli- 


Historical  and  Genealogical  Notes.  209 

day,  of  Georgia,  who  married  Martha  Dickerson,  of  Virginia. 
prior  to  the  Revolutionary  war;  also  about  her  family. 

Did  the  families  mentioned  in  the  foregoing  have  coat-of-arms. 
and  what  was  each  ? — M.  C.  T. 

Mills.  (Answer  to  query,  p.  134.) — In  1745-1747  there  were 
living  on  lands  along  Pedlar  and  James  rivers  (in  the  present 
county  of  Amherst,  then  Albemarle)  Thomas,  William  and  Am- 
brose Mills;  Thomas,  Marvel  and  John  Stone;  and  in  1761  a 
William  Morris  was  living  on  or  near  the  Tobacco-row  Moun- 
tain in  the  same  section.  Among  the  Cabell  papers  there  is  a 
Mem°^  of  "The  First  Inhabitants  above  the  Red  Mountains" 
(which  I  take  to  be  the  present  Tobacco-row)  without  date;  but 
probably  written  in  1744  or  1745,  containing  the  names  of 
Thomas  and  William  Mills  (probably  one  of  them  was  the  father 
of  Ambrose)  and  Thomas  Stone.  One  of  the  first  entries  for 
land  on  Pedlar  river  was  made  by  Thomas  Stone  in  September. 
1744,  and  as  Ambrose  Mills  entered  for  lands  on  the  same  river 
in  1745  (when  he  was  22  years  old),  it  is  probable  that  Mourn- 
ing Stone,  whom  he  married  about  this  time,  was  a  daughter  of 
Thomas  Stone. — Alexander  Brown. 

Tapscott. — It  is  said  that  three  Tapscott  brothers  qame 
to  America  about  1G59.  '  I  have  a  record  of  one  branch,  that 
of  Edward  Tapscott.  What  were  the  Christian  names  of 
the  Tapscott  brothers  who  emigrated  to  America  in  1659, 
and  whom  did  they  marry,  and  where  did  they  locate?  Was 
Captain  Harry  Tapscott  a  naval  officer?  (he  visited  James 
Tapscott,  of  Botetourt  county,  Ya.,  towards  the  latter  part  of 
the  seventeenth  century .  Who  was  the  father  of  Rawleigh  Tap- 
scott, who  married  Ann  Sherman,  1783  ?  Who  was  the  father  of 
Edney  Tapscott  and  Chichester  Tapscott,  both  of  whom  lived 
during  the  seventeenth  century  ? — X. 

Early  Tombstones  in  Northu:mberland  County^  Till. 
42-47. — It  should  have  been  stated  in  connection  with  this  ar- 
ticle that  the  inscriptions  and  notes  were  furnished  by  Dr.  G.  W. 
Beale,  of  Heathsville,  ^Northumberland  county. 


210  William  and  Maky  Colleqe  Quarterly. 

BOOK  EEVIEWS. 


Word-Book  of  Virginia  Folk-Speech.    By  Dr.  B.  W.  Green.    Richmond, 

Viraini'a:  Published  by  William  Ellis  Jones. 

The  editor  published  in  the  October  ^Magazine  a  brief  notice  of  this  in- 
teresting work.  He  has  since  given  it  a  more  careful  examination,  and 
is  more  pleased  than  ever  with  the  results  of  Dr.  Green's  patriotic 
labors.  The  editor  desires  to  correct  one  suggestion  thrown  out  by  him 
in  the  previous  notice.  Ue  hazarded  the  statement  that  ''perhaps  some 
of  the  words  given  by  him  (Dr.  Green)  were  either  local  or  the  jargon 
of  illiterate  negroes.''  But  in  his  Preface  Dr.  Green,  vouching  the 
standard  authorities,  is  emphatic  in  the  statement  that  the  only  negro 
word  introduced  is  '"juba,"  the  name  of  a  dance.  The  gibberish  of  the 
wild  negroes  .sold  in  Virginia  soon  passed  away.  Homely  as  such  worda 
as  "tote,"  "agwine,"  "high  falutin,"  etc.,  may  appear,  these  words  are 
not  negro  jargon,  as  some  suspect,  but  old  Virginia  speech,  survivals  of 
archaic  English  forms  that  have  been  lost  in  England.  Dr.  Green 
claims  that  the  ancestors  of  our  Virginia  people  came  mainly  from 
Southern  England,  and  that  this  explains  why  the  r  in  Virginia  is 
slurred  and  often  silent,  and  why  we  never  have  in  our  Folk-speech  the 
trilled  r  of  the  Italian  nor  the  Northumbrian  horr.  Xow  in  the  North- 
ern States  of  the  American  Union  the  r  is  rolled,  evidencing  an  origin 
in  the  northern  parts  of  England. 

Dr.  Green  modestly  says  that  "the  subject  is  not  exhausted,"  and 
that  "to  make  it  perfect  would  be  impossible."  But  even  granting  this 
to  be  so,  it  seems  ungracious,  in  view  of  so  much  good  work,  to  suggest 
imperfections. 

Nevertheless,  as  the  book  will  doubtless  command  extensive  sale,  and 
will  perhaps  see  another  edition,  the  editor  will  venture  to  make  a  few 
comments,  which,  it  is  hoped,  will  not  be  deemed  out  of  place,  in  view 
of  the  great  possibilities  of  the  study  in  which  Dr.  Green  is  engaged. 

If  I  understand  pages  8,  9  and  10  of  the  preface.  Dr.  Green  proposes 
to  give  the  Folk-speech  of  Virginia  as  now  spoken,  the  every-day  speech 
of  the  people.  But  it  is  clear,  from  other  parts  of  his  preface  and  from 
the  dictionary  itself,  that  he  has  not  contined  himself  to  this  purpose. 
He  has  relied,  in  a  measure,  if  I  understand  him  aright  (page  11),  on 
the  depositions  and  inventories  recorded  in  our  old  county  books.  Now 
it  does  not  follow  at  all  that  words  current  two  hundred  years  ago  are 
the  Folk-speech  of  to-day.  Language,  like  everything  else,  is  in  con- 
stant change,  and  I  submit  that  the  Folk-speech  of  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury is  not  necessarily  that  of  the  nineteenth.  Such  a  word  as  "Ber- 
moothes,"  which  Dr.  Green  says  is  an  old  name  for  the  Bermuda  Islands, 
has  no  place  in  a  dictionary  of  living  words.  Educated  people  have 
heard  of  the  "Still-vex'd  Bermoothes,"  but  the  generality  know  only 
Bermuda.     Similarly  the  word  "cod"  was  current  in  land  grants  two 


Book  Reviews.  211 

hundred  years  ago,  and  the  words  burgess  (for  delegate),  agwine  (for 
going),  Wait  (for  VVyatt),  Jeamen  (for  James),  Umst<?ad  (for  Arm- 
'stead),  Munger  (for  Ironmonger),  Bowtlie  (for  Booth),  etc.,  are  clearly 
out  of  date  among  the  people.  It  appears  to  me  that  Dr.  Grwm  should 
strike  these  and  sinnlar  words  out,  or  so  enlarge  tiie  scope  of  his  index 
as  to  make  his  dictionary  apply  to  words  at  any  time  current  in  Vir- 
ginia. 

There  is  another  suggestion  which  Dr.  Green  might  consider.  Does 
he  not  give  too  much  prominence  in  his  prefiice  to  the  soutliern  origin 
of  our  people  and  their  dialectical  peculiaiities?  I  think  there  is  no 
doubt  whatever  that  the  general  speech  of  the  people  has  been  always 
much  more  bookish  or  classic  than  dialectic  and  provincial.  It  is  true 
that  Southern  England  was  largely  represented  in  Virginia,  but  this 
representation  was  chiefly  confined  to  the  south  of  the  James,  which  was 
practically  a  colony  of  the  great  southwestern  city  of  Bristol.  On  the 
other  hand,  the  .>ettlers  on  the  north  of  the  James,  as  far  indeed  as  the 
great  Potomac,  were  chiefly  from  Middle-Eastern  England,  where  the 
classic  language  prevailed.  It  must  not  bo  forgotten  that  the  great 
company  of  London  merchants  first  controlled  the  colony,  and  the 
records  of  the  old  counties  on  the  north  of  the  James  conclusively  show 
that  the-e  London  merchants  were  largely  represented  in  that  part  of 
Virginia.  The  trade  of  the  Peninsula  counties  and  of  the  Gloucester, 
Rappahannock  and  Northern  Necks  was,  during  the  seventeenth  century, 
almost  entirely  with  the  great  English  Metropolis.  In  fact,  the  deeds 
and  powers-of-attori'.ey  show  that  the  population  was  largely  from  Lon- 
don and  the  environing  counties — Middlesex,  Essex,  etc.  Instance  the 
Filmers  of  Warwick  county,  Virginia;  Timsons,  Juxons,  Mosses,  Good- 
wins of  York  county;  Pages  of  Gloucester;  Boilings,  Blands  and  Byrds 
of  Charles  City,  etc.,  all  of  whom  came  from  London  or  near  it.  More- 
over, there  is  plenty  of  evidence  that  the  speech  of  the  people  of  Vir- 
ginia had  from  very  early  days  comparatively  little  of  the  provincial  or 
dialectic  about  it.  A  single  witness  suHices — the  able  professor  of  mathe- 
matics in  the  College  of  ^Villiam  and  ]Mary  in  1722 — Rev.  Hugh  Jones, 
A.  M.  In  his  Present  State  of  Virginia  he  says  that  "the  planters  of 
Virginia  and  even  the  native  negroes  talk  good  English  ivithout  idiom  or 
tone,  and  discourse  handsomely  on  most  common  subjects;"  that  they,  in 
fact,  loolv  down  upon  all  Englishmen  who  do  not  come  from  London, 
affecting  to  be  greatly  amused  at  the  jargon  of  persons  from  Bristol, 
the  sm.aller  cities'  in  England,  the  rural  districts,  and  from  Scotland. 
(See  for  further  authority  Quarterly  VII. ,  p.  74.)  Take  not  one 
period,  but  the  whole  course  of  colonial  history,  and  there  can  be  no 
doubt  that  many  more  "bookish  people"'  came  to  Virginia  than  to  any 
other  colony.  Libraries  were  more  common  in.  Virginia  than  in  any 
other  colony,  and  the  "bookish  man,"  no  matter  where  he  came  from  in 
England,  spoke  the  language  of  Middle-Eastern  England. 


Genealogical  Searches 

MILL  be  made  on  reasonable  terms  in  the  splendid 
and  extensive  collection  of  English  and  American 
Genealogical  Works  in  the  Library  of  Congress, 

and  in  the  Public  Records  in  Washington.  Fifteen  years' 
experience  in  this  class  of  work  enables  me  to  do  it  thor- 
oughly, expeditiously  and  satisfactorily.  Exceptional  facili- 
ties for  establishing  Proofs  of  Services  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  Expert  advice  as  to  how  to  prosecute 
searches  for  genealogical  information  in  England,  after 
the  data  in  the  Library  of  Congress  has  been  exhausted. 
I  have  access,  in  several  libraries,  to  hundreds  of  works  on 
English  Heraldry,  so  that  5eals,  Coats  of  Arms,  Etc.,. 
may  be  found  and  identified. 

Virginia  Genealogies  a  Specialty. 
"^'''"Tn^oiro^rw^L^  C-  QUISENBERRY, 

726  Fifth  Street  N.  E.,  WASHINGTON,  D.  C. 

IN  PREPARATION. 

THE  WALTONS  OF  VIRGINIA 

And  Some  Allied  Families 

Will  contain  notice,  more  or  less  extended,  of  the  follow- 
ing families :  Adger,  Bacon,  Baker,  Browne,  Carring- 
ton,  Cox,  Dalton,  Ellison,  Fleming,  Gentry,  Goodrich, 
Hughes,  Knight,  Matthews,  Murphy,  Mushatt,  McEn- 
tire,  Nickolls,  Roberts,  Rice,  Sharp,  Smythe,  Tilman, 
Woodson,  Yarbrough,  etc.,  etc. 

Additional  data  concerning  above  families,  not  already  in 
possession  of  Compiler,  is  desired. 

The  edition  will  be  limited  and  issued  to  subscribers  only. 

For  further  particulars,  address 

WM.  ARMSTRONG  CROZIER,  B.  A.,  L.  Th., 

3735  Sansom  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


flltam  anb  flbar^  C/OllcQC 

(Sluavterli?  Ibtetortcal  fiDagaslne^ 

Vol.  VIII,  APRIL,  1900.  No.  4. 


/  GLIMPSES  OF  OLD  COLLEGE  LIFE. 

\y  {Continued  from  page  153.) 

The  folloTving  is  from  the  correspondence  of  xVndrew  Pieid,  Jr./ 
and  Samuel  ]\IcDowell  Eeid^  uncle  and  father  of  Mrs.  J.  J. 
Wliite,  of  Lexington.  Dr.  W.  G.  Brown  (Mrs.  White's  son-in- 
law),  formerly  of  Washington  and  Lee  University  and  now  of  the 
University  of  Missouri,  was  at  pains  to  make  the  copy.  Dr. 
Brown  writes: 

*^I  find  in  some  of  the  letters  the  usual  demands  for  money, 
and  in  some  the  not  unusual  reply,  the  injunction  to  be  careful, 
with  a  remittance. 

"Among  other  things  I  came  across  A.  Reid,  Jr.'s  manuscript 
lectures  on  Natural  Philosophy,  delivered,  I  think,  by  Bishop 
Madison.  Also  forty-three  pages  of  questions  on  Smithes  Wealth 
of  Nations  propounded  by  Bishop  Madison,  and  a  fev^  pages  of 
notes  on  Botany  in  the  same  note  book,  the  page  being  about  the 
size  of  this  paper. 

"Besides  the  letters  written  from  William  and  Mary,  I  found 
letters  to  A.  Reid,  Jr.,  and  his  brother,  written  from  Yale, 
Princeton  and  Pennsylvania.  The  SniitJi's  Wealth  of  Nations 
mentioned  in  one  of  them  is  in  the  libra rv'  here  with  A.  Reid,  Jr.'s 
autograph — two  volumes  bound  in  full  calf.  Washington  Acad- 
emy mentioned  has  grown  into  Washington  and  Lee  University, 
and  one  of  the  letters  indicate  that  advances  had  been  made  to 
Bishop  James  ^ladison,  President  of  William  and  Mary  College. 
Both  Armistead  T.  ]\[ason  and  his  brother  John  T.  Mason  in 
1807  challenged  A.  Reid,  Jr.,  to  duels — Armistead's  challenge 
resulting  from  his  brother  having  been  bound  over  to  keep  the 
peace.  The  duel  was  avoided,  mutual  explanations  having  been 
made.  I  have  the  whole  or  nearly  the  whole  of  this  correspon- 
dence.    It  consists  of  nineteen  pages.'' 


214  William  and  Mary  College  Quaeterly. 

Charles  A.  Stuabt  *  to  A^^drew  Reid^  Je. 

New  Haven,  Dec.  24tb,  1799. 

Dear  Andrew, 

I  have  scarcely  any  acquaintance  here  and  none  but  those  I  have 
made  since  I  arrived  here;  there  are  two  Virginians  here,  one  of  whom 
I  have  formed  some  acquaintance. 

I  have  not  entered  college  yet,  owing  to  their  requiring  my  standing 
an  examination  on  some  Books  I  have  not  read  and  something  more  of 
Virgil  than  I  liked  to  stand  on  at  a  venture. 

Preston  would  have  been  more  disappointed  in  entering  college  than 
I  have  been;  for  at  Princeton  they  are,  I  am  told,  much  more  strict  than 
they  are  here  in  order  to  retrieve  the  character  of  the  college;  the  stu- 
dents there  I  believe  study  immensely  hard,  though  they  are  very  gay. 

I  am  glad  to  hear  that  you  are  going  to  the  Academy  in  the  spring. 

I  heard  of  your  elections  in  Virg«-  several  days  ago;  but  give  leaf  to 
say  that  I  think  that  no  indication  of  a  change.  I  nev^er  now  scarcely 
tbink  of  politics,  every  one  here  being  of  the  same  opinion  that  I  am 

acquainted  with and  the  lamentable  death  of  that  noble 

patriot  and  excellent  general,  tho'  the  vile  Aurora  hardly  think  worth 
while  to  draw  a  streak  of  black  for  him  and  the  others  in  perfect  black. 
It  is  resolved  by  Congress  to  wear  black  this  session  in  honor  of  him. 

Charles  A.  Stuart. 

New  Havex,  July  lOtn,  1800. 
Dear  Andrew, 

We  were  very  much  surprised  a  few  days  ago  at  the  news  of  Jef- 
ferson's death,  which  I  regretted  as  the  loss  of  our  philosopher,  and  many 
of  the  students  as  a  politician,  and  many  rejoiced;  but  I  was  much 
pleased  to  see  them  so  much  dejected  at  the  reverse  of  the  news.  .  .  . 
I  then  thought  we  had  lost  our  orator  (Henry) ,  our  warrior  and  our  phi- 
losopher; the  characters  of  wliom  will  certainly  extend  as  far  as  lit- 
erature can  carry  them  or  tradition  convey  such  things;  they  are  char- 
acters the  imitation  of  whom  it  would  be  well  for  the  American  youth 
to  attend  to. 

I  am  now  very  well  pleased  with  things  here;  the  students  I  find 
quite  sociable,  and  many  of  them  clever.  I  associate  most  generally  with 
southern  rather  than  yankees.  I  have  been  introduced  to  many  young 
ladies  in  town;  but  have  not  extended  an  acquaintance  with  but  few  of 
the  best  families,  who  I  visit  very  seldom;  two  or  three  I  think  worthy 
acquaintance,  but  none  of  them  do  I  think  I  could  love.  I  intend  be- 
coming a  very  close  student  hereafter. 

I  am  yours  most  sincerely,  Charles  A.  Stuart. 

*  Afterwards  a  prominent  citizen  of  Greenbrier  county,  W.  Va.  He 
died  in  1850. 


Glimpses  of  Old  College  Life.  215 

Joseph  C.  Cabell  *  to  Dr.  William  B.  Haee. 

Williamsburg,  4th  of  January,  1801. 

Dear  Doctor, 

My  Professor,  Mr.  Tucker,  has  been  lecturing  constantly  since  the 
first  of  Deer,  and  means  to  finish  his  course  by  the  beginning  of  April, 
at  which  time  he  will  set  out  on  his  circuit  as  a  district  c't  judge.  Pos- 
sibly my  Father  t  may  wish  me  to  leave  this  place  and  return  home  as 
soon  as  the  Law  Lectures  are  over,  but  it  will  probably  be  most  advisa- 
ble to  remain  where  I  am  at  least  till  the  first  of  June.  Since  my  arrival 
here  I  have  been  a  close  student,  but  as  I  am  compelletl  to  spend  near 
three  hours  of  the  best  part  of  every  day  in  the  week  (except  Sunday) 
in  the  Lecture  roorn,  my  reading  has  been  much  more  limited  than  I 
myself  expected.     .     .     . 

The  Habits  of  the  students  of  this  course  are  uncommonly  favour- 
able to  the  views  of  one  who  is  anxious  to  profit  greatly  by  a  residence  at 
the  college.  I  allude  particularly  to  the  practices  of  Balling,  visiting 
and  lounging  about  in  one  another's  rooms,  which  were  carried  to  an 
excess  when  I  was  here  formerly,  but  are  now  confined  within  their 
proper  limits.  The  most  of  the  students  are  I  think  weaker  than  usual, 
but  there  are  some  young  men  ams  us  who  are  amiable  and  sensible  and 
will  probably  make  a  considerable  figure  in  life.  Young  Nathaniel  Ven- 
able  X  boards  in  our  house,  and  I  find  him  a  very  agreeable  and  sensible 
companion.  We  three  from  Amherst  live  in  a  house  in  company  with 
Henry  Tucker  and  one  of  his  younger  brothers.  Nicholas  is  a  close  stu- 
dent. Sam  Wiatt  is  tolerably  attentive  and  I  hope  by  the  end  of  the 
course  will  acquire  such  fixed  habits  of  reading  as  will  ensure  his  future 
welfare.  Samuel  has  not  yet  made  his  entrance  into  the  circle  of  fash- 
ionable company,  but  Nicholas  has  dined  with  several  of  the  old  Dons, 
and  in  company  with  several  of  us  took  a  Christmas  dinner  at  Colo, 
Skipwith's,  who  you  know  married  my  old  acquaintance,  Mrs.  Dunbar. 
We  frequently  visit  Mrs.  Tazewell.  The  old  lady  seems  to  have  gotten 
over  the  loss  of  Mrs.  Griffm,  in  having  regained  the  company  of  her  son 
William,  whom  she  expected  to  have  lost  during  his  trip  to  Europe.  .  .  . 

Henry  Tucker  requests  me  to  procure  for  him,  by  means  of  some 
friend  in  Richmond,  Randolph's  Abridgment  of  the  Virginia  Laics,  to  be 
had  for  15  | —  at  Davis's  Printing  Office. 

Jos.  C.  Cabell. 
To  Doctor  William  B.  Hare,  member  of  the  Assembly,  Richmond. 

*  Joseph  C.  Cabell,  after  graduating  at  William  and  Mary,  pursued  a 
wide  course  of  study  in  Europe.  He  became  one  of  the  most  accomplished 
men  of  his  day;    was  rector  of  the  University  of  Virginia,  etc. 

t  Col.  Nicholas  Cabell. 

$  Nathaniel  Venabie  was  afterwards  brother-in-law  of  Nicholas  Ca- 
bell, Jr. 


216  William  and  Maey  College  Quarterly. 

Thomas  L.  Pkeston  *  to  Andrew  Keid,  Jr. 

WiLLIAMSBUKG,  Jan.  T^h,  1802. 
Dr  Friend, 

On  tlie  14th  of  Dec"  last  I  arrived  at  this  place,  a  period  much  later 
than  I  contemplated  when  we  parted,  however  soon  enough  I  believe  to 
cramp  that  happiness  with  which  I  seemed  then  to  be  encircled.  My 
expectations  of  this  place  were  too  much  raised,  and  as  is  common  with 
the  sanguine,  I  was  of  course  disappointed.  Which  disappointment  has 
created  a  little  discontent  that  probably  will  wear  off  in  a  short  time. 
The  dissipation  here  is  intolerable,  and  I  am  sure  never  could  be  recon- 
ciled to  one  raised  in  the  mountains.  Lexington,  tho'  retired,  was  always 
pleasing  to  me.  The  innocent  manners  that  characterize  that  place  were 
astonishingly  infatuating.  The  civilities  I  received  from  the  people 
there  .  .  .  shall  ever  be  recollected  with  pleasure  and  acknowledged 
with  a  feeling  sense  of  gratitude. 

Politics  at  this  place  have  entirely  subsided.  We  are,  however,  all 
republicans,  and  consequently  read  the  President's  message  with  ecstacy 
and  applause. 

Thomas  L.  Preston  to  Andrew  Reid,  Jr. 

Williamsburg,  February  22nd,  1802. 
Dr.  Reid, 

You  mention  that  (perhaps)  after  I  become  acquainted  more  gen- 
erally I  will  be  better  (pleased)  with  this  place  than  when  I  wrote  to 
you.  Your  letter  (has  been)  received  at  a  very  unfortunate  time  to 
make  an  im(pres3ion) .  I  am  not  dissatisfied  with  the  character  of  the 
inhabitants,  for  I  think  they  are  as  polite  and  hospitable  as  any  people 
I  have  ever  been  with,  but  I  am  disgusted  with  the  irregularity  of  the 
students.  The  college,  because  of  the  expulsion  of  tw^o  young  men  the 
other  day,  is  in  complete  confusion. f  No  business  is  done  and  a  num- 
ber of  students  have  withdrawn  their  names.  Violence  to  the  college 
and  property  of  some  inhabitants  has  been  given  and  the  event  cannot 
be  foreseen.  I  gave  my  approbation  to  some  remonstrances  by  the  stu- 
dents against  the  sentence  of  expulsion  and  expressed  my  dislike  in  th« 
society  of  the  students  to  the  procedure  of  the  Professors,  as  unwar- 
ranted for  want  of  sufficient  evidence,  but  I  have  been  invariably  opposed 
to  injuring  the  college  or  the  property  of  any  one,  and  never  have  been 
connected  with  a  party  concerned  in  that  business.  They  were  expelled 
on  a  vague  report  for  having  fought  a  duel. 

Thos.  L.  Prestox. 

*  Brother  of  James  P.  Preston,  Governor  of  Virginia. 
t  This  riot  was  a  celebrated  one  in  its  day,  similar  to  that  at  Prince- 
ton in  1807. 


Glimpses  of  Old  College  Life.  217 

The  Reid  correspondence  will  bo  interrupted  here  by  an  extract 
from  a  different  source;,  which  sheds  further  light  upon  the  "riot'^ 
of  1802,  described  in  the  letter  of  Thomas  L.  Preston,  just  pre- 
ceding. 

Miss  Charlotte  Balfour  to  Mrs.  Whitixg.* 

February  23d,  1802. 
I  cannot  permit  your  sweet  son,t  my  friend,  to  leave  Williamsburg 
without  this  small  testimony  of  my  re^^ard,  as  well  as  to  assure  you 
with  what  regret  we  part  witli  him,  his  amiable  disposition  having 
gained  him  the  esteem  of  all  those  who  have  had  the  pleasure  of  his  ac- 
quaintance, but  as  matters  stand  at  present  I  cannot  but  agree  in  think- 
ing it  advisable  he  should  quit  college  (at  least  for  a  time).  The  con- 
duct of  some  of  the  students  has  surpassed  anything  I  ever  heard  of. 
To  George's  candor  I  leave  the  delineation  of  characters,  who,  from  the 
opportunity  he  must  of  necessity  have  had  of  being  more  among  them, 
can  give  you  a  more  accurate  account  of  their  wicked  and  sacrilegious 
proceedings.  The  visitors  I  am  told  meet  to-day.  What  may  be  the  re- 
sult of  their  deliberations  I  know  not,  but  something  I  trust  that  may  in 
future  secure  the  college  from  the  odium  the  late  unprecedented  behavior 
of  the  students  must  have  cast  upon  it.  I  congratulate  my  friend  that 
her  son  is  among  the  number  of  those  who  see  their  conduct  in  its 
proper  light. 

Charlotte  Balfour  to  Mrs.  W^hiting,  of  Dumfries,  Prince  William  Co. 

The  Eeid  correspondence  now  continues: 

-Pj     -r>  -J  Williamsburg,  Ajyril  15th,  1802. 

My  love  for  Wmsburg  is  yet  resting  on  the  same  basis  which  sup- 
ported it  when  I  last  wrote  you.  Dissipation  has  greatly  disappeared 
since  the  egression  of  students  from  this  place,  which  was  very  consid- 
erable, it  amounting  to  near  an  half  of  the  w^hole  number.  The  cause  of 
their  departure  was  the  disaffection  which  arose  in  consequence  of  an 
expulsion  of  2  students.  Every  turbulence  of  spirit  which  characterized 
the  actions  of  the  major  part  of  the  young  men  in  college  at  that  time 
is  now  perfectly  at  rest  and  every  duty  which  the  peculiar  situation  of 
a  student  invites  is  again  attended  to  with  tlie  utmost  cheerfulness. 
W^ith  this  restoration  of  peace  and  harmony  I  trust  the  reputation  of  the 
college  will  be  returned  and  the  injury  which  all  parties  may  have  sus- 
tained will  be  forgotten.  ]\[y  return  to  W.  Academy  next  summer  is  cer- 
tainly to  take  place.  The  study  to  which  I  shall  be  devoted  will  require 
neither  the  assistance  of  an  apparatus  or  library  except  such  as  I  shall 
take  with  me  as  my  object  is  to  attend  solely  to  the  rudiments  of  law, 
and  as  to  the  instructions  of  the  President  in  that  respect  it  would  hav« 
no  weight  with  me,  inasmuch  as  I  should  not  stand  in  need  of  them. 

*  This  letter  was  sent  me  by  Dr.  Frederick  Horner,  of  Fauquier  Co. 
t  George  Whiting,  of  Prince  William  Co. 


218  William  and  Maky  College  Quarterly. 

_,  T^  .     J  Williamsburg,  Jan.  9th,  1803. 

Dr  Friend,  '  ' 

Since  my  arrival  here  I  have  been  to  a  few  parties  of  pleasure.    That 

conviviality  which  has  long  characterized  this  place,  is  still  one  of  its 

strong  features.    The  ladies  are  (divested  of  some  town  airs)   agreeable 

enough  and  much  disposed  to  sociability.     The  reputation  of  the  college 

is  rising.     Xever  has  been  seen  greater  order,   industry  and  economy 

among  the  students  than  at  this  time.    The  number  of  whom  is  between 

60  or  Qo.    I  wish  your  seminary  was  on  a  liberal  and  generous  scale.     I 

am  confident  it  would  soon  be  prosperous. 

C.  A.  Stuabt  to  Andrew  Keid,  Jb. 

T^        -r,  .     J  Yale,  July  21  at,  1803. 

Dear  Friend,  *        v         > 

Yesterday  I  closed  my  collegiate  studies  by  undergoing  an  examina- 
tion for  the  last  time.  It  now  remains  only  that  the  corporation  accept 
of  the  recommendation  of  the  class  by  the  faculty  for  the  purpose  of 
graduating  them;  eight  weeks,  however,  must  intervene  previous  to 
this  fact.  We  then  celebrate  commencement — this  is  done  by  public  ex- 
hibitions of  orations,  disputes,  &c.,  composed  and  performed  by  a  part  of 
the  graduating  class. 

Samuel  :Maek  *   to  Same. 
Friend  Eeid,  Fredericksbubg,  ^ov.  4th,  1805. 

I  have  been  solicited  by  an  acquaintance,  who  is  a  relation  of  the 
young  gentleman  who  is  to  be  the  bearer  of  this  epistle,  to  communicate 
a  few  lines  by  him,  which  will  have  a  tendency  to  render  the  cultivation 
of  a  friendly  intercourse  with  the  citizens  of  your  place,  not  as  arduous 
and  difficult  as  it  otherwise  would  be.  He  is  the  son  of  a  gentleman  of 
the  first  respectability  in  Fauquier  county,  and  from  the  strict  enquiries 
which  have  been  made,  relative  to  the  morality  of  the  place,  the  riguor 
of  the  laws  and  the  uniformity  of  their  execution,  when  violated,  I  am 
induced  to  believe  that  the  son  visits  that  place  f  in  consequence  of  the 
belief  of  the  father,  that  it  will  conduce  to  inspire  a  love  of  virtue  and 
a  desire  of  literary  celebrity.  What  the  result  of  a  residence  at  that 
place  will  be,  I  am  totally  unable  to  prophesy,  inasmuch  as  I  have  not 
the  honour  of  a  personal  acquaintance  with  the  gentleman  who  is  the 
subject  of  this  letter. 

I  received  a  letter  from  Preston  at  the  same  time  yours  arrived.  You 
appeared  to  rival  each  other  in  giving  an  exalted,  fascinating  and  (I  am 
almost  induced  to  say)  an  exaggerated  description  of  the  operations  of 
the  16tii  Ultimo:  I  am  happy  to  hear  that  the  njoment  of  your  liberation 
from  collegiate  discipline,  produced  so  great  a  portion  of  satisfaction 

*  Samuel  Mark  was  son  of  John  Mark,  of  Fredericksburg  (see  Quab- 
terly,  \X,  p.  95.) 

t  Washington  Academy. 


i  Glimpses  of  Old  College  Life.        219 

i 

I  and  only  lament  that  fate  had  cruelly  determined  that  I  should  not  par- 

I  take  in  its  pleasure. 

I  Mr.  Andrew  Reid,  Junr.,  Lexington,  Virginia,     y 

Mr,  Withers. 

Fredericksburg,  Nov.  10th,  1805. 
Friend  Reid, 

It  gave  me  mucli  pleasure  to  hear  that  the  students  acquitted  them- 
selves handsomely.  I  am  told  that  such  an  examination  was  never  heard 
before  that  "laurels  were  twined  around  your  brows." 

The  only  way  I  can  account  for  the  extraordinary  honours  which  have 
been  heaped  upon  your  heads  is  by  referring  to  those  who  absconded 
previous  to  the  examination — as  it  is  generally  understood  that  those 
who  fear  the  test  elope,  leaving  the  more  luminous  behind  to  reap  the 
reward  of  their  labours. 

I  am  happy  to  hear  that  you  had  so  agreeable  a  party:  on. that  even- 
ing I  saw  the  celebrated  play  of  John  Bull  performed,  and  to  use  the 
eant  expression  of  the  day,  "it  was  horridly  butchered."  Recollecting 
that  it  had  been  acted  by  the  students  of  W.  A.*  it  recalled  old  times  to 
my  remembrance  and  I  involuntarily  began  to  mutter  something  about 
dancing,  and  really  fancied  myself  addressing  a  female  in  Capt.  Shields 
large  room,  but  was  suddenly  roused  from  the  pleasing  reverie  by  the 
witty  sayings  of  old  Brulgueden. 

Health,  Sami  :^L\p.B:. 

Mr.  Andrew  Reid,  Junr.,  Lexington,  Rockbridge  county,  Virginia. 

W.  Radford  f  to  Same. 

WiLLi^VMSCURG,  December  26th,  1805. 
Dear  i  Andrew, 

A  scene  of  dissipation  has  at  length  commenced  at  this  place.  The 
night  before  Christmas  a  great  deal  of  mischief  was  done  and  we  were 
summoned  to  the  blue  room.    What  may  be  the  consequence  I  cannot  tell. 

.  .  .  We  have  only  forty-five  students.  The  smallness  of  the  num- 
ber is  occasioned  by  the  riots  and  dissipation  last  course. 

T^         ,    J  W^illiamsburg,  April  8th,  1808. 

Dear  Andrew, 

We  have  had  considerable  alarm  in  this  place,  owing  to  some  sus- 
picions 'that  were  excited  of  an  insurrection  of  the  negroes.  The  stu- 
dents were  very  active  on  the  occasion.  They  turned  out  several  nights 
successively  until  all  appreliensions  of  danger  subsided.  I  begin  to  have 
doubts  whether  there  was  the  smallest  cause  of  alarm.  .  .  .  Williams- 
burg g(et)  ting  more  dull  than  usual.  Our  Law  professor  has  left  it  to 
attend  to  Ms  circuit.  He  will  not  return  until  June:  In  the  interval  I 
shall  have  very  little  to  do. 

*  Washington  Academy. 

f  From  Bedford  county;   captain  in  1812. 


220  William  axd  Mary  College  Quarteely. 

T»        .    ,  Williamsburg,  May  Ist    1806. 

Dear  Andrew,  '        -^        ' 

A  duel  was  to  have  been  fought  a  few  days  ago  between  two  students, 
Armistead  T.  Mason,  son  of  Geni.  Stevens  T.  Mason,  dec'J.,  and  Bar- 
tholomew Henley.  They  were  to  have  fought  with  two  pistols  each,  ten 
steps  distance,  advance  and  fire  when  they  pleased.  Fortunately,  it  was 
discovered  by  the  Bishop.  They  were  both  young  men  of  undaunted 
courage.  I  \vas  in  Mason's  room  about  nine  o'clock  at  night.  The  next 
morning  was  the  time  appointed.  We  were  getting  the  pistols  in  order. 
The  Bishop  entered  the  house  with  a  magistrate.  ^lason  escaped.  The 
B  was  then  in  a  terrible  quandary.  Wirt  *  extricated  him,  he  got  himself 
appointed  constable  and  without  letting  any  one  know  it,  he  begged  W. 
Crump  to  inform  him  where  Mason  was.  After  much  persuasion  he  con- 
sented upon  being  told  that  W  did  not  wish  to  discover  the  parties,  but 
only  wished  to  see  M  for  the  friendship  he  bore  his  father.  I  am  told 
when  he  entered  no  one  knew  his  purpose.  He  rose  and  spoke  so  pa- 
thetically as  to  draw  tears  from  every  person  present,  begged  they  would 
excuse  him  for  acting  the  deceiver's  part  as  he  was  only  actuated  by 
friendly  motives.  He  then  took  jNlason  before  a  justice,  became  his  se- 
curity in  the  sum  of  seven  thousand  five  hundred  dollars.  The  affair  is 
since  made  up  and  the  recognizance  no  longer  continues. 

Samuel  ;Maek  to  Andrew  Reid,  Jr. 

-c  .     J   .     ,  Fredericksbui;g,  July  13th,  1S03. 

Friend  Andrew,  '         ^  ' 

In  perusing  the  "Enquirer"  of  Friday  last,  I  discover  that  the 
geniuses  at  William  and  Mary,  are  numerous  and  resplendent.  .  .  . 
Our  old  acquaintance  William  Archer  f  is  one  of  the  objects  of  the 
writer's  panegyric. — high  hopes  are  entertained  of  his  future  greatness — 
I  wish  they  may  be  to  their  fullest  extent  realized. 

Edwi]n-  J.  IIarvie  to  Sa^ie. 

Richmond,  Oct.  30,  1S06. 
My  dear  Reid, 

You  will  receive  by  the  stage  driver  Smith's  Wealth  of  Nations  in  2 
Volumes. t  Cavallo's  Philosophy  such  as  is  used  at  Williamsburg  cannot 
be  procured  in  Richmond.  There  is  one  copy  on  Electricity  3  Volumes  7 
Dollars  &  one  volume  on  Magnetism  2yo  Dollars  which  I  would  have  sent 
you  had  I  not  met  with  some  friends  who  were  at  that  college  the  last 
session  who  observed  that  they  would  be  of  A^ery  little  advantage  to  you. 

*  William  Wirt,  the  celebrated  lawyer. 

f  William  S.  Archer  became  senator  of  the  United  States. 

%  Bishop  Madison  began  to  teach  Political  Economy  in  1784.  He  is 
believed  to  have  made  the  earliest  use  in  an  American  college  of  Smith'* 
great  work. 


Glimpses  of  Old  College  Life.  221 

W.  Radford  to  Same. 

T^       ^  . ,  Richmond,  :Sov,  Uth,  1806. 

Dear  Rem,  ' 

Inform  me  fully  when  you  write  of  all  the  news  of  the  ancient  me- 
tropolis: whether  there  is  perfect  harmony  between  the  students  and 
professors  and  between  the  students  and  citizens. 

Samuel  LIaek  to  Andrew  Reid,  Jr. 
Friend  Reid  Fredericksburg,  Xovemhcr  2't-h,  1806. 

Let  me  know  the  fate  of  ticket  6159  of  the  first  class  of  Wm  &  M  Col- 
lege. If  you  are  disposed  to  buy  a  ticket  in  the  2*1  class  I  will  join  you — 
you  know  we  were  fortunate  in  a  preceding  union.* 

S.    M(ARK). 

Mr.  Andrew  Reid,  Jun"".,  Student  Williamsburg,  Virginia. 

t 

A:?rDREw  Reid,  Jr.,  to  Samuel  ]\IcDowell  Reid. 

WiLLL\MSBUKG,  July  13tb,  1807. 

I  delivered  an  oration  on  the  4th  of  July  which  I  suppose  you  have 
learnt  before  this  time  from  the  Enquirer.    My  theme  was  Eloquence. 

Andrew  Moore  f  to  Andrew  Reid,  Jr. 

e-  City  of  Washingtox,  Dec.  23^,  180G. 

oir , 

By  your  letter  Mr.  Madison  continues  to  support  that  amiableness 
of  deportment  and  assidnity  of  attentions  to  his  students  which  have 
hitherto  characterized  him.  It  would  have  been  an  important  acquisi- 
tion to  our  Academy  had  we  succeeded  in  getting  him  as  President.^ 
altho  I  lam  now  pleased  with  Mr.  Baxter  and  hope  great  things  from  his 
great  application  and  more  liberal  sentiments.  Please  present  my  best 
respects  to  Mr.  Madison. 

Albert  Allmond  to  Sa^ie. 

WmsBURG,  August  10,  1807. 

The  Bishop's  family  are  now  in  an  unusual  high  flow  of  spirits  occa- 
sioned by  the  sudden  and  unexpected  arrival  of  Mr.  J.  ]Madison  from  Bal- 
timore an^  the  E.  Indies. 

WiLLIAilSBURG,   Xov.   27,    1807. 

You  no  doubt  expect  I  have  become  a  student  and  are  correct  in  your 
opinion.     On  Monday  next  I   am   to   deliver   a   composition,   of   which 

*  To  raise  money  for  colleges  at  this  period,  resort  was  often  had  to 
lotteries. 

f  Senator  of  the  United  States  and  trustee  of  Washington  Academy. 

t  Bishop  James  Madison  was  President  of  William  and  Mary  from 
1777  to  1812,  when  he  died. 


222  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

I  have  not  yet  composed  one  sentence  and  of  wliicli  I  am  afraid  I  shall 
not  be  able  to  compose  one  line. 

S.  R.  WiLLisoN  *  TO  Andrew  Reid,  Jr. 

Baltimore,  7tb  Aug.,  1807. 
;  Your  favour  of  the  25th  May  dated  Williamsburg  .  .  .  arrived  here 
yesterday.  .  .  .  Tlie  contents  so  far  as  respected  the  second  centenary 
anniversary  of  the  settlement  of  our  ancestors  in  Virginia  were  entirely 
new,  as  the  newspapers  of  this  place  took  no  notice  of  it;  and  I  very 
seldom  meet  with  one  from  Va.  You  no  doubt  spent  your  time  very 
agreeably  at  that  immense  assembly,  which  was  convened  on  the  plains 
of  James  Toicn.f 

John  M $  to  Saiie. 

T^       -D  -J  Madison,  Jan.  18,  1808. 

Dear  Reid,  t 

In  your  last  you  ask  me  much  of  Mrs,  I.  I  have  received  many  let- 
ters from  my  correspondents  in  that  place  [Williamsburg],  since  the 
commencement  of  the  present  course.  Very  different  are  the  times  since 
we  were  there.  The  students  are  more  numerous  and  less  intercourse 
■with  each  other.  The  girls  are  as  ugly  as  usual,  but  little  galantry, 
much  study  and  good  order,  very  few  entertainments  in  town.  The 
chaneelor  [Samuel  Tyler]  is  of  this  number  the  head. 

Albert  Allmond  to  Ak^drew  Eeid,  Jr. 

Williamsburg,  April  15,  1808. 

With  respect  to  the  riot  which  has  taken  place  at  college  it  is  my 
opinion  the  most  despicable  thing  that  ever  happened.  At  a  time  when 
thfe  Bishop's  family  were  overwhelmed  with  grief  for  the  death  of  their 
favorite  John  (whose  fate  is  now  pretty  well  ascertained).  The  rev- 
erend President  is  insulted  with  the  epithet  of  "damned  Rascal,"  the  col- 
lege property  is  destroyed,  and  the  Bishop  threatened  with  the  breaking 
of  his  windows.  The  cause  of  this  was  a  young  man,  who  had  been  dis- 
missed from  Princeton,  and  brought  with  him  the  Princeton  dissipation. 
Several  of  your  old  acquaintances  with  whose  characters  you  were  also 

pretty  well  acquainted,  were  his  associates  in  the  riot,  such  as , 

&  -. 

Before  the  expulsion,  the  number  of  students  amounted  to  60  but 
since  it  has  been  diminished  to  50.    There  are  none  here  now  remarkable 


*  A  physician  of  Baltimore. 

t  This  celebration  was  called  a  "Jubilee."  Orations  were  made  by 
Briscoe  G.  Baldwin,  afterwards  a  judge,  and  ])y  John  ^Madison,  and  odes 
by  C.  K.  Blanchard  and  Leroy  Anderson — all  students.  A  second  celebra- 
tion occurred  in  1822,  and  a  third  of  great  pretensions  in  1857 — many 
others  since  that  day.    Why  not  have  a  national  celebration  in  1907? 

t  Part  of  the  name  is  torn  off,  but  it  was  probably  John  Madison,  aon 
of  the  Bishop. 


Glimpses  of  Old  College  Life.  223 

for  their  talents.    One  of  the  expelled  (Holmes)  was  supposed  to  be  the 
greatest  genius  in  Virginia.    He  also  came  from  Princeton.* 

A.  Allmo.vd. 

James  Pace  to  Same. 
Sir,  Wma  BURO,  June  22"^,  1803. 

I  have  nothing  very  interesting  to  inform  you  except  the  death  of  an 
old  and  respectable  friend  Doct.  J.  M.  Gait,  who  left  us  8  days  ago. 
Bishop  Madison  preached  his  funeral  sermon  on  Sunday  last  when  al- 
most every  person  in  the  place  attended.  It  is  said  by  judges  the  ser- 
mon was  superior  to  any  ever  delivered  in  this  place.    .    .    . 

We  shall  have  2  weddings  here  in  a  few  days,  a  and  a  31r. 

Callaway ,f  a  student,  to  Miss  Lewis. 

Charles  Buford  %  to  Samuel  McDowell  Reid. 
Dear  McDowell,  ^^^  ^^^^''  ^«^"«"2/  the  19th,  1816. 

New  Haven  my  place  of  residence  is  very  agreeably  situated;  on  one 
side  it  has  the  Sound,  on  the  other  it  is  bound  by  high  cliffs  which  form 
one  end  of  that  chain  of  mountains  which  extends  into  Canada.  These 
cliffs  or  mountains  add  grandeur  and  sublimity  to  the  scene,  as  in  some 
places  they  present  precipices  from  an  hundred  to  an  hundred  and  fifty 
feet  in  height,  while  in  others  they  are  covered  with  cedars  and  pines 
which  are  ever  green.  From  the  number  of  trees  in  N.  H.  it  may  be  said 
to  be  a  rural  city,  presenting  at  once  a  grove  and  a  town.    .    .    . 

*  Eev.  Jonathan  Boucher,  who  was  tutor  of  Washington's  adopted 
son,  John  Parke  Custis,  wrote  to  Washington  in  1771  as  follows;  "If 
after  all  you  resolve  in  removing  him  (from  his,  Boucher's,  care),  all  I 
have  to  add  is  a  request  that  it  may  not  be  to  Princeton.  Pay  me  the 
compliment  of  believing  that  I  know  something  of  these  matters;  and 
there  is  not  anything  I  am  more  convinced  of  than  that  your  o-\vn  college 
is  a  better  one — better. in  every  respect.  You  live  contiguous  to  it,  and 
hear  every  objection  to  it,  often  magnified  beyond  the  truth,  and  were 
this  the  case  with  respect  to  the  Jersey's,  I  am  mistaken  if  you  would 
hear  less  there.  If,  however,  the  objections  to  Williamsburg  be  insuper- 
able, I  would  then  roccmmend  New  York;  it  is  but  a  step  further,  and 
for  obvious  reasons  infinitely  deserves  the  preference."  New  England 
Historical  and  Genealogical  Register,  July,  1899, 

In  April,  1707,  there  occurred  at  Princeton  what  was  kno\vn  as  the 
"Great  Eebellion,"  in  the  course  of  which  eleven  f^tudents  were  expelled 
and  many  otiiers  suspended.  Among  those  who  suiTered  the  former 
punishment  was  Abel  P.  Upshur,  of  Virginia,  afterwards  Secretary  of 
State.  He  was  not  one  of  tlie  original  rebels,  but  condemned  the  Fac- 
ulty as  unjust  and  precipitate  in  the  manner  of  their  action. 

f  Abner  Callaway.  < 

t  Grandson  of  Samuel  McDowell,  of  Kentucky,  afterwards  judge  and 
colonel. 


224  WiLLiAii  AND  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

I  have  not  yet  entered  college,  but  have  taken  a  private  room  and  am 
pursuing  my  studies  ^vith  a  private  tutor,  I  cannot  state  v^ith  cer- 
tainty when  I  will  enter,  but  have  some  thought  of  attending  it  next 
June  commencement.  I  could  enter  the  present  freshman  class  at  this 
time,  but  I  very  much  dislike  the  thought  of  remaining  here  four  years. 
My  views  for  remaining  with  a  private  tutor  are,  at  that  time  to  enter 
the  sophom.ore  class  which  will  be  two  terms  advanced  and  thereby 
shorten  my  stay  one  year.  Even  three  years  will  be  a  long  time,  but 
upheld  by  the  hope  of  obtaining  a  pretium  opcrae,  I  think  I  can  stay 
contentedly.  My  expectations,  respecting  Yale  College  as  an  institution, 
formed  previous  to  my  leaving  Kenty,  were  great,  but  they  have  not  at 
all  been  disappointed.  The  regulations  of  the  college  are  so  well  calcu- 
lated to  conform  the  students  to  regular  and  moral  habits,  that  I  will 
venture  to  say  that  there  is  no  college  in  this  country  where,  in  propor- 
tion to  the  number  of  students,  there  is  less  immorality,  or  where  there 
is  more  steadiness  of  habits.  .  .  .  The  opinions  I  have  formed  of  the 
Yankees  are  not  very  favourable.  It  is  true  they  are  to  be  admired  for 
their  morality  and  for  their  oeconomy  when  they  do  not  carry  it  so  far  as 
to  make  undeserving  of  the  appelation  of  virtue;  but  they  are  deficient 
in  nobleness  of  heart  and  manly  pride.  They  are  by  no  means  hospitable, 
and  many  of  them  who  put  on  long  faces  on  Sunday  will  cheat  a  stranger 
on  Monday.  That  nobler  feeling  of  the  heart,  generosity,  is  so  rarely  to 
be  found  with  the  New  Englanders,  that  I  have  sometimes  thought  that 
probably  this  Goddess  has  forsaken  so  severe  a  clime,  and  taken  up  her 
habitation  farther  to  the  south.  In  saying  this  is  the  case  with  the 
New  Englanders  in  general  I  have  perhaps  said  too  much,  but  these  are 
the  opinions  I  have  formed  of  the  portion  of  them  I  have  seen. 

I  am  under  the  disagreeable  necessity  of  telling  you  that  it  will  be 
entirely  out  of  my  power  to  visit  Eockbridge  in  the  Spring,  nothing 
indeed  would  give  me  more  pleasure,  but  I  am  convinced  that  when  you 
shall  have  heard  my  reasons  for  giving  over  my  trip  y(ou  will)  think  I 
have  acted  wisely.  (They)  are  these,  I  have  determined  to  enter  (the 
soph)imore  class  and  from  my  slight  K(nowledge)  of  the  Greek,  assidu- 
ous application  will  be  necessary  to  my  obtaining  admission  next  June. 
I  might  also  fall  in  love  while  in  Rockbdge  as  I  am  very  susceptable,  and 
this  you  know  would  hinder  my  studies  from  progressing  as  fast  as  they 
would  otherwise  do.  Upon  the  whole  I  think  you  will  hold  ray  reason- 
ing good,     .     .     . 

Ja:^l£s  McDo^\^:LL  *  to  SA:kiuEL  ]\IcDowell  Eeid. 
Dear  Mac  ^^^  College,  Fel.  23<i,  18U. 

I  wrote  you  a  long,  long  time  but  never  hearing  from  you  I  swore  in 
the  moment  of  wrathful  disappointment  tht  I  never  would  wi^ite  again 
&  you  see  that  Ive  persevered  very  well  in  that  resolution  yet  the  "biting 

*  James  McDowell  was  afterwards  a  distinguished  statesman,  and 
was  governor,  etc. 


Glimpses  of  Old  College  Life.        225 

tooth  of  time"  lias  entirely  obliterated  the  impressions  of  those  pas- 
sionate declarations  &,  the  calm  of  composure  after  the  tempest  of  anger 
has  completely  restored  you  to  your  wonted  stand  in  my  affections,  'tis 
hard,  very  hard  indeed  to  erase  our  early  prejudices  when  founded  in 
reason  &  partiality  &  *'time  but  the  impression  deeper  makes  as  streams 
their  channels  deeper  wear."  Think  not  that  I  intend  to  moralize  or 
grow  pathetic  on  the  subject  notwithstanding  the  violent  itching  I 
feel  towards  it — it  is  a  practice  so  frequently  used  in  letter  writing  & 
so  often  degraded  by  the  perversion  of  truth,  candor  &  sincerity  that 
were  I  to  adopt  it  you  would  either  question  the  agency  of  my  heart  in 
what  I'd  say  or  think  that  I  was  the  servile  minion  of  falsity  and  form 
&  probably  of  imitation;  so  to  counteract  any  such  suspicion  I"ll  face  to 
the  right  about  &  ask  you  what  you  think  of  a  military  life?  How  do 
you  like  the  celebrated  manouevre  of  tergiversation?  it  is  very  fashion- 
able nay  I  assure  you  'tis  the  very  ton,  but  I  forget  that  you  never  had 
the  opportunity  of  displaying  your  gallantry  in  that  evolution,  yet  I 
dare  say  like  other  unfortunate  persons  you  only  waited  &  wanted  the 
occasion  to  signalize  yourself — Do  you  intend  resuming  the  study  of 
the  Law?  You  had  better  visit  Connt  to  learn  the  jurisprudence  of 
"steady  habits'*  which  you  must  admit  is  more  essential  than  any  other 
knowledge;  these  good  people  well  deserve  the  epithet  of  steady,  they 
adhere  most  tenaciously  to  their  characteristic  attachment  of  money,  for 
notwithstanding  the  caballing  invectives  of  all  denominations  of  people 
here  against  the  ''war  hawks,  the  war  and  embargo,"  the  passion  for 
gold  has  predominated  over  every  other  feeling  &  the  124$  bounty  has 
had  magnetism  and  attraction  sufficient  to  inveigle  upwards  of  30  of 
these  good  fellows  within  a  fortnight  past  &  Ive  no  doubt  will  continue 
to  entrap  in  opposition  to  every  endeavor.  We  are  in  a  perpetual  buz 
here  about  a  contemplated  dissolution  of  the  Union,  they  are  clamorous 
about  their  '"'infringed  rights,"  "the  executive  tyranny  and  abuse  of 
power,"  &  loudly  vociferate  redress.  These  N.  Englaaders  follow  most 
humbly  and  obsequiously  the  State  of  ^Mass.  whose  Legislature  as  you  see 
in  the  papers  are  thundering  in  monstrous  tones,  yet  I  think  that  the 
Ebullition  of  their  rage  '"tantum  valet  quantnm  sonat"  and  I've  no 
doubt  but  that  this  fermentation  like  all  others  will  bubble  and  boil  for 
a  moment,  sl^bside  in  another  and  not  only  disappear  in  the  next,  but 
entirely  lose  its  sharpness  and  acidity.  These  Yankee  factionists  roused 
by  ideal  misery  and  oppression,  checked  in  their  schemes  by  opposition 
&  maddening  at  their  non-efficiency  &  impotence  will  wage  a  war  of  viru- 
lence and  abuse,  fume,  fret,  and  after  all — "nascitur  ridiculus  mus," 

His  Excy  Dr.  Dvvight  is  most  grossly  infected  by  this  raging  political 
epidemick  &  instead  of  resisting  the  current  of  this  pestilential  malady 
he  is  borne  willingly  along  urging  the  sentiment  of  ]Nracheth  "I  am  steped 
in  so  far  returning  were  as  bad  as  to  go  oer";  the  Rev<i  old  Man  occa- 
sionally whets  his  splenitick  appetite  in  a  political  Sermon,  unfortu- 
nately for  him  his  prejudices  are  so  irresistable  and  powerful  that  they 
"mantle  his  clearer  reason"'  bafSe  all  his  powers  of  ratiocination  and 


226  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

change  his  party  hatred  and  dislike  into  pitiful  individualism  and  per- 
sonal animosity — but  what  of  him?    he  is  nothing  to  us  so  I'll  let  him 

rest I  wish  you  would  write  me  &  I  must  request  immediately 

anything  in  the  world  would  be  agreeable,  for  according  to  the  old  adage 
I  love  my  home  however  homely  above  all  places  else  &  yoil  are  so  near 
that  coming  from  you  were  just  the  same  &  twould  I  assure  enliven  this 
infernal  place  greatly  to  my  comfort  and  satisfaction.  It  growing  so 
dark  I  can  see  to  write  no  farther.  Remember  me  most  affectionately  to 
yr  Father  Mother  &  sisters  &'be  assured  that  I  shall  ever  seek  with  hap- 
piness any  opportunity  of  avowing  how  much  I  am  your  relation  how 
much  more. 

Your  friend,  James  McDowell. 

N.  B.  I  most  particularly  enjoin  it  upon  you  not  to  show  this  to  any 
living  creature,  the  direction  of  it  would  of  itself  slander  me. 

J3.  McD. 

Mr.  Saml.  McD.  Reid,  Lexington,  Rockbridge  C'ty,  Virga. 

?^    William  C.  Preston  *  to  Samlt:l  McDowell  Reid. 
■p       T^j-g  South  Carolina  College,  Feb.  3,  1810. 

I  have  just  become  acquainted  with  the  students  and  collegiate  duties 
of  this  place  and  therefore  cannot  tell  you  what  I  think  of  it,  however 
I  am  well  enough  acquainted  to  know  that  the  manner  of  living  College 
is  much  more  comfortable  than  at  Lexington  and  the  duties  much  harder. 
I  am  in  the  Sophomore  class  which  recites  three  times  a  day  from  which 
you  may  suppose  that  the  hours  of  recreation  and  leisure  are  but  few. 
There  are  100  Students  and  for  the  number  they  are  extremely  moral  and 
orderly,  yet  they  sometimes  "break  the  shackles  of  restraint  and  rise 
in  the  madness  of  their  power."  They  sometimes  turn  a  methodist  con- 
gregation out  of  the  church  and  fill  it  with  goats,  and  they  sometimes 
make  a  little  noise  in  the  stewards  house. 

And  believe  me  your  most  affectionate  friend. 

James  McDowell  f  to  Samuel  :McDowell  Reid. 

P  ^^  -jy^^  Nassau  Hall,  Feb.  26,  1816. 

I  have  leisure  it  is  true,  yet  it  is  almost  always  necessarily  employed 
in  relaxation,  that  violent  tension  and  close  confinement  of  mind  which 
my  studies  require  produces  a  total  inaptitude  for  anything  but  amuse- 
ment.— am  I  therefore  censurable  for  indulging  in  it?  Moreover  I 
shouldn't  forget  to  mention  (for  it  has  a  very  conspicuous  place  among 

*  William  G.  Preston,  of  Montgomery  county,  Va.,  settled  in  South 
Carolina,  where  he  became  a  very  distinguished  orator  and  statesman. 
He  served  as  Mr.  Calhoun's  colleague  in  the  L^nited  States  Senate.  He 
was  a  grandson  of  Patrick  Henry. 

f  McDowell  went  from  Yale  College  to  Princeton  (Nassau  Hall), 
where  he  graduated. 


Glimpses  of  Old  College  Life.  227 

my  difficulties)  that  no  longer  ago  than  Thursday  I  had  with  Beveral 
others,  to  pronounce  a  public  Oration.  You  may  conjecture  the  magni- 
tude of  this  bore  when  you  are  informed  that  the  subject  was  a  meta- 
physical one.  Ja.  McDowell. 

Judge  William  H.  Cabell  to  Col.  Samuel  McDowell  Reid.* 
Mv  dear  Sir  Rickmond,  Saturday,  June  19,  1841. 

I  have  it  in  contemplation  to  send  a  son  of  Colo.  John  Gamble's  to 
your  College;!  provided  he  will  be  permitted  to  study  such  things  as 
his  father  wishes  him  to  attend  to;  or  in  other  woi"d.s,  to  become  what 
is  called  an  irregular  student.  You  know  that  in  Princeton  and  Ilarap- 
den-Sidney,  they  have  what  they  call  classes,  Freshman,  Sophomore, 
Junior  &  Senior;  and  each  student  is  compelled  to  enter  one  of  them,  & 
to  confine  himself  to  the  studies  of  that  class.  Colo  Gamble  does  not 
wish  his  son  to  study  Latin  &  Greek;  but  he  desires  him  to  be  instructed 
in  Mathematics,  Rhetoric,  Moral  Philosophy,  Natural  Philosophy  and 
Chemistry.  Are  your  rules  such  that  a  student  will  be  permitted  to 
study  such  of  these,  or  all  of  them,  during  the  same  session,  if  his  father 
should  desire  it?  You  know  that  that  is  the  case  at  the  University.  At 
Princeton  they  receive  no  student  who  will  not  become  a  regular  one, 
that  is,  who  will  not  study  everything  that  they  prescribe  in  their  dif- 
ferent classes.  In  other  words  they  deny  the  benefits  of  their  institution 
to  all  who  will  not,  or  have  not  the  ability  to,  study  Latin  &  Greek.  It 
is  wonderful  to  me  that  a  free  people  will  submit  to  such  aristocratic 
tyranny.  I  would  be  willing,  myself,  to  apply  the  torch  to  every  institu- 
tion conducted  on  such  principles,  and  to  aid  in  hanging  the  selfish  su- 
perintendants.  But  I  beg  pardon,  for  I  may  be  treading  on  the  toes  of 
some  of  my  Lexington  friends.  I  know  that  at  the  University,  matters 
are  so  arranged  that  a  young  man,  may,  if  he  has  the  capacity,  attend 
advantageously  to  all  the  studies  I  have  mentioned  during  the  same 
session.  Is  that  the  case  with  you?  Have  the  goodness  also  to  inform 
me,  what  are  all  the  expenses  of  a  session  at  your  college  (exclusive  of 
clothes  &  pocket  money)  k  at  what  time  they  must  be  paid.  Wm  was 
kind  enough  to  send  me  a  list  of  the  students,  &c.,  for  which  I  thank 
him.  That  may  give  information  on  some  of  these  matters;  but  I  have 
mislaid  it. 

Yours  affecy  Wm  H.  Cabeix. 

*  Samuel  ^IcDowell  Reid  married  Sarah  Elizabeth  Hare,  daughter 
of  W.  B,  Hare,  and  niece  of  Judge  Cabell.  He  was  clerk  of  the  county 
court  of  Rockbridge  (1S31-1852),  clerk  of  the  circuit  court  (1831-1858), 
trustee  of  Washington  College  (1819-1869),  etc.  As  to  the  elective  sys- 
tem, it  was  first  accepted  at  William  and  Mary  in  1779,  and,  though 
there  were  regular  classes,  any  student  could  be  an  irregular  who  de- 
sired it.    The  University  of  Virginia  became  a  champion  of  the  principle: 

t  Washington  College. 


228  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

LAWYERS  OF  THE  SEVENTEENTH  CENTURY. 

In  his  interesting  work  Old  Virginia  and  Her  Neighbors,  Dr. 
Fiske^,  while  pa-sing  a  eulogy  on  the  great  lawyers  of  the  eigh- 
teenth century,  expresses  a  poor  opinion  of  the  legal  talent  of  the 
Virginia  lawyers  during  the  first  half  of  the  seventeenth  century. 
He  states  that  "the  legal  profession  was  .  .  .  sometimes 
recruted  by  white  freedmen,  whose  careers  of  rascality  as  attor- 
neys in  England  had  sometimes  ended  in  penal  servitude."  I 
do  not  know  his  authority  for  this  statement,  but  the  records 
appear  to  give  it  an  unqualified  denial.  I  am  ignorant  of  the 
name  of  any  law}'er  to  whom  the  remark  would  apply.  William 
Sherwood,  who  flourished  in  the  last  half  of  the  centur}^  had  in 
his  youth  committed  some  offence  (not  necessarily  criminal)  in 
England,  but  he  was  not  a  convict,  and  his  career  in  Virginia  did 
not  begin  in  servitude.  It  was  in  fact  highly  honorable  to  him, 
and  he  was  highly  respected. 

The  business  of  the  courts  was,  of  course,  at  first  of  a  very 
simple  character.  There  was  but  little  encouragement  to  trained 
law}'ers,  and  the  causes  were  pleaded  by  the  more  prominent 
merchants  and  planters,  acting  for  the  parties  in  suit.  Rural 
conmiunities  are  ever  jealous  of  special  classes,  and  the  laws  of 
the  time  reflect  prejudices  rather  than  good  reasons. 

Taking  York  county,  for  instance,  we  find  among  the  lawyers 
in  1646  William  Hockaday,  Karbry  Kiggan,  Francis  Willis, 
Thomas  Bushrod,  Dr.  Robert  Ellyson. 

About  1660  we  .find  John  Holdcroft,  James  Bray,  Thomas 
Ballard,  John  Page  and  Daniel  Parke. 

In  1675,  William  Swinnerton,  William  Sherwood,  Gideon 
Macon. 

All  'of  these  were  trusted  and  prominent  men.  Willis,  Bray, 
Ballatd,  Page  and  Parke  became  members  of  the  Virginia  Coun- 
cil. Hockaday,  Bushrod,  Ellyson  and  Macon  were  at  different 
times  members  of  the  House  of  Burgesses.  AVith  the  possible 
exception  of  William  Sherwood,  who  was  bred  to  the  law,  John 
Holdcraft  and  William  Swinnerton,  all  were  merchants  or  plant- 
ers well  informed,  but  not  trained  to  the  law. 

Some  Letters  to  Old  Attorneys  of  York  County. 
Mr  Kiggan  my  respects     These  are  to  intreate  you  to  doe  me  the 
favour   as   to   present   my  business   in  court   concerning  Mr  Ludlowe. 


Lawyebs  of  the  Se\'exteexth  Century.  229 

John  Phillipps  was  to  have  been  my  Attorney  but  hee  is  by  accident 
fallen  lame  and  therefore  cannot  appeare    And  yis  note  shall  fully  oblige 
me  to  stand  to  without  any  contradiction  what  shall  be  by  you  accom- 
plished and  ever  remaine  yo"  to  command  Ciikistopiieb  Boyse. 
[Court:  June  IG,  1G4G.] 

Mr.  Hockaday.  I  would  entreat  you  to  acknowledge  to  ye  court  that 
I  am  bound  in  bond  to  Wm.  Pryor  for  nine  hundred  pounds  of  tobacco 
and  caske  And  for  ye  paymt  of  ye  sd  nine  hundred  pounds  of  tob  and 
caske  all  my  croppe  both  corne  and  tobacco  my  house  and  plantacon,  my 
cattle  with  all  I  doe  possess  is  bound  over  to  ye  s<i  Mr  Pryor,  as  witness 
my  hand  this  25th  of  July  164C.  Eliz:  Moree.     0  her  mark. 

[Court:   July  25,  1646.] 

^Ir.  Bu>hrod  Loueing  ffriend  witb  my  best  respects  rememb^'i  I 
pray  yo^  to  let  mee  entreat  to  ^secute  a  suite  fof  mee  against  Capt  Ptalph 
Wormely  for  a  debt  due  to  Joseph  Xettmaker  from  the  estate  of  Luke 
Stubbins  dec.  I  haue  sent  yu  Mr.  Xettmakers  lettre  of  attorney  by  whch 
I  give  y^  power  to  ^^secute  ye  suite  yrselfe  or  to  appoint  another.  I  have 
sent  you  also  ^Ir  Stubbins  his  note  under  Mr  Xettmaker  his  hand  and  Mr 
Jobn  Stringers  deposicon  to  prove  ye  debt.  I  belieue  Capt  Wormeley  will 
pay  ye  debt  without  suite  when  he  sees  Mr  Stringers  deposition  not  ells 
at  prsent  I  rest  y'^  to  be  comanded  CoR-\elius  Loyu.* 

[Court:    24  Sept.  1G47.] 

Mr.  Bray:  This  is  first  to  give  you  thanks  for  your  civility  at  Kent 
Court  concerning  Terrell  f  and  indeed  I  shall  not  forget  it  but  I  have 
made  you  ample  sattisfacon  and  indeed  is  the  ground  and  cause  of  this 
my  writing  to  you  that  is  to  be  my  Attorney  now  at  yis  Yorke  Court. 
If  yoii  refuse  it  for  any  reason  that  you  are  engaged  to  ye  oyer  party  as 
being  imployed  by  him  then  be  so  civill  as  to  crave  a  Reilerence  till 
ye  next  court  for  I  finde  myselfe  soe  disabled  in  body  that  I  dare  not 
venture  as  yet  though  I  have  attempted  twice  to  go  out  of  doores  I  have 
found  yat  I  have  gone  by  ye  worst  of  it.  Xow  ye  businesse  is  yat  Newelit 
sues  me  for  a  debt  of  my  wives  a  pretended  bill  past  to  him  for  a  ser- 
vant of  five  hundred  pounds  of  tobacco  past  in  his  husband's  life-time. 
Now  I  would  fp.ine  know  of  him  of  what  force  yat  is  shee  being  under 
covert  baron.  If  the  Court  grant  judgment  upon  that,  Appeale  to 
Towne,  The  Second  is  Mr  Aldrey's  for  a  hogshead  of  tobacco  It  ap- 
peared yat  ye  tobacco  was  worth  nothing  by  tfoure  depositions.  If  hee 
Kewell  substantially  proves  that  was  his  hogshead  which  must  be  by 
two  oayes  then  submit  to  ye  judgmt  of  ye  Court. 

Anoyer  action  of  case  Xewell  hay  Arrested  me  on  Thursday  last  what 
it  is  for  I  cannot  tell  nor  devise,  therefore  can  give  noe  Instruction  soe 

*  Of  Lower  Norfolk  county,  colonel  and  justice. 

f  Richmond  Terrell,  of  New  Kent  county. 

X  Jonathan  Newell,  a  leading  merchant  of  James  City  county. 


230  WiLLixiM  AND  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

if  necessity  you  must  crave  A  refTerence  for  If  I  did  know  what  it  was 
yet  in  that  case  that  I  am  in  I  could  not  in  yat  time  provide  myselfe  to 
Answear  him. 

Now  Sr  when  this  Court  is  over  if  you  please  to  entertain  my  businesse  i 

wtii  my  friends  you  shall  finde  a  considerable  businersne  for  ye  Quarter  j 

Court  and  I  shall  give  you  very  good  sallary  I  doubt  not  but  to  your 
content    Soe  I  cease  to  wright  Leaving  many  things  to  your  discretion 

[Court:   Dec.  21,  1G61.]  Joseph  Croshaw.^ 


LIBRAKY  OF  COL.  SOUTHEY  LITTLETON. 

/ 

V  {As  set  out  in  the  inventory  of  his  estate  January  10,  lG79-'80.) 


One  booke  called  Corderins,  one  piece  of  a  book  of  Dr.  Sander-  I 

son,  one  do.  of  y^  dilference  of  sacraments,  one  ditto  of  zEsops  \ 

Fables  in  Latin,  one  Booke  of  Eates,  one  Booke  of  y^  Body  of  3^*  \ 

Common  Lawe,  one  Ditto  of  Sententia3  Plauti,  one  Booke  of  Tes-  \ 

tam*%  one  ditto  of  a  short  introduction  of  y^  Gramcr,  one  Booke  % 

of  Shadows  and  y^  Compleat  Woman,  one  Booke  called  y^  Lon-  ) 

don  Dispensatory,  The  printed  Lawes  of  yirg%  one  Booke  called  ■. 
Lncian,  Ursine's  Orations  and  y®  history  of  y^  Xew  England 
Warr,  one  Booke  called  y  Doctrine  of  Triangles,  and  Cokers 
Copie  Booke. 

In  the  Hall  a  Mapp  npon  the  walls  of  Maestricht  besieged.  { 

[Eooms  mentioned  in  the  inventory:  Parlor,  parlor  chamber,  f 

ball  garret,  porch  chamber,  porch  chamber  garret,  hall,  new  -• 
room,  the  chamber,  little  room  over  a  kitchen,  kitchen,  milk 

house.]  1 

Note.  ] 

Col.  Nathaniel  Littleton,  father  of  Southey  Littleton,  came  to  Vir-  j 

ginia  about  1635,  and  settled  on  Nldua  Creek,  in  Accomac  county.    In  ] 

1640  he  was  chief  magistrate  of  Northampton  county,  burgess  in  1652,  ! 

councellor  in  1640  and  in  subsequent  years,  continuing  till  his  death  in  | 

1C54  the  foremost  man  on  the  Eastern  Shore.     He  is  said  to  have  been  | 

the  brother  of  Lord  Chief  Justice  Edward  Littleton  and  the  son  of  Sir  | 

Edward  Littleton,  of  Henley,  in  Shropshire    {New  England  Historical  | 

and  Genealogical  Register,  Vol.  XLI.,  pp.  364-309) ,  and  of  Mary  his  wife,  ] 
daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Walter,  of  Ludlow,  in  Shropshire.     Sir  Edward 
Littleton  was  great-grandson  of  Sir  Thomas  Littleton,  one  of  the  judges 

*  Major  Joseph  Croshaw,  of  Poplar  Neck  (afterwards  Rippon  Hall), 
York  county.  His  daughter  Unity  married  Col.  John  West,  after  whom 
West  Point,  on  the  York  river,  was  named. 


FRANKLIN^s  Parable  Against  Persecution.  231 

of  the  Court  of  Coramon  Picas,  and  author  of  the  celebrated  "Treatise  on 
Tenures,"  which  Lord  Coke  characterized  as  "the  ornament  of  the  com- 
mon Law  and  the  most  perfect  and  absolute  work  that  ever  was  wrote 
in  any  human  science."  This  tradition  of  the  pedigree  of  Col.  Nathaniel 
Littleton,  of  Vir<jinia,  is  confirmed  in  three  ways:  (1)  Sir  Thomas 
Littleton's  sixth  sou  was  named  Nathaniel;  (2)  members  of  the  Walter 
family  settled  in  Accomac  about  the  same  time,  and  (3)  Mrs.  Ann 
(Southey)  Littleton,  "widow  and  exx  of  Col.  Nathaniel  Littleton  Es- 
quire," by  her  will,  proved  in  1G5G,  made  "James  Littleton,  Esquire,  of 
Shropshire,  near  Ludlow,"  heir  to  the  real  estate  in  case  of  the  death  of 
all  her  children.  Now  a  brother  of  Lord  Edward  Littleton  was  named 
James,  Fellow  of  All  Souls  College,  Oxford. 

Col.  Nathaniel  Littleton  married  Ann  ( widow  of  Charles  Harmar,  of 
Accomac,  brother  to  Dr.  John  Harmar,  Greek  professor  at  Oxford), 
daughter  of  Henry  Southey,  Esq.  In  1G43  the  court  of  Accomac  granted 
a  certificate  for  land  to  "Mrs.  Anne  Littleton  in  right  of  her  father 
Henry  Southey,  Esqre,  Eldy  his  wife,  Henry  Southey  his  child,  Thomas, 
Mary,  Elizabeth  Southey,  and  others."  Henry  Southey,  Esq.,  of  Rimp- 
ton,  in  Somersetshire,  obtained  from  the  Virginia  Company  a  grant  for 
land  in  lG21-"22.  The  term  of  "Squire"  was  conferred  only  on  men  in 
England  holding  high  civil  positions  and  on  the  sons  of  knights.  In 
Virginia  it  could  only  be  gained  in  the  case  of  persons  not  previously 
entitled  to  the  dignity  in  England  by  holding  the  ofhce  of  councillor. 
Col.  Nathaniel  Littleton  had  two  sons  and  probably  two  daughters:  (1) 
Edward,  (2)  Southey,  (3)  Esther,  named  in  Anne  Littleton's  will,  (4) 
Mary(?),  married  Col.  Edmund  Scarburgh,  by  whom  Littleton  Scar- 
burgh.  Of  these  Col.  Edward  Littleton  married  ( 1 )  Sarah  Douglass, 
daughter  of  Lieut. -Col.  William  Douglass;  (2)  Frances,  daughter  of 
Col.  Obedience  and  Grace  O'Neil  Eobins  by  whom  a  daughter  Grace  (born 
December  4,  1661).  Col.  Edward  Littleton's  will  was  proved  in  North- 
ampton county  in  16G3.  Col.  Southey  Littleton  (will^  proved  in  New 
York  in  1679,  and  recorded  in  Accomac)  resided  at  Nadua  in  Accomac, 
married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Major  Edmund  Bowman,  of  Accomac,  and 
had  three  sons  and  four  daughters:  (1)  Nathaniel,  (2)  Bowman,  (3) 
Southey,   (4)    Esther,   (5)   Sarah,   (6)    Elizabeth,   (7)    Gertrude. 

From  this  family  of  Littletons  came  Judge  Abel  P.  L^pshur,  Tyler's 
Secretary  of  State,  who  was  a  worthy  inheritor  of  the  genius  of  the  Lit- 
tletons. 


DE.  FPtANKLIN'S  PARABLE  AGAINST  PERSECUTIO:^. 

In  the  altercation  related  as  taking  place  in  Washington  about 
1800  between  a  Virginian  and  a  New  Englander  over  Dr.  Frank- 
Hn's  claim  to  the  original  authorship  of  the  "Parable  of  Persecu- 
tion/' Bishop  Taylor's  Works  were  produced,  and,  the  story  sub- 
stantially appearing  therein,  the  bet  was  given  to  the  Virginian, 


232  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

and  the  New  Englander  lost  his  bay  mare.*    It  is,  however,  to  be 

noticed  that  Bishop  Taylor  (born  1G13;   died  1GG7)  did  not  set  j 

up  a  claim  for  himself,  but  referred  the  authorship  to  the  "Jews'  j 

Books."  I 

But  my  attention  has  now  been  called  to  the  fact  that  before  | 

the  dispute  mentioned  above  a  gentleman  in  Calcutta  in  the  year  j 

1789  had  questioned  Dr.  Franklin's  originality,  and  charged  that  I 

he  was  indebted  for  the  idea  to  the  Bustan  {Bostan,  Boostan)  of  ! 

Sadi,  an  eminent  Persian  poet  (born  at  Shiraz  in  1184  A.  D.)  f  { 

The  story  is  undoubtedly  a  very  old  one,  but  it  is  probable  that  \ 

the  story  came  to  Franklin  from  Bishop  Taylor  rather  than  from  \ 

the  Persian.     It  is  reasonably  certain  that  Dr.  Franklin  never  * 

heard  of  Sadi  at  the  time  he  wrote,  whereas  Bishop  Taylor  was  a  i 

well-known  English  classic.    It  is  even  more  certain  that  Bishop  \ 

Taylor  never  heard  of  Sadi,  and  that  both  he  and  Sadi  obtained  1 

it  independently  from  some  Jewish  book.  I 

To  prove  his  point  the  Calcutta  gentleman  printed  Dr.  Frank-  i 

lin's  fable  and  the  Halcacet  from  the  Boostan  in  the  first  volume  j 

of  the  New  Asiatic  Miscellany.     In  his  Anecdotes  of  Martyrs  I 

(Philadelphia:  J.  B.  Lippincott  &  Co.,  1887),  Mr.  EdTvin  Pax-  I 

ton  Hood  remarks  on  this,  and  adds  the  following  comment,  | 

without  seeming  to  know  aught  of  Taylor's  version :  I 

"That  Dr.  Franklin  did  not  understand  Persian  is  certain.  \ 

That  he  might  have  met  with  a  translation,  however,  of  some  | 

parts  of  the  Boostan  in  France  or  elsewhere  is  highly  probable.  | 

For  the  reader's  amusement,  we  shall  place  the  Doctor's  fable  I 

and  the  Uakacet,  to  w;hich  he  is  supposed  to  have  been  indebted,  i 

with  a  few  alterations  from  the  Calcutta  copy,  in  parallel  col-  \ 

,  3mns,  thus  enabling  our  readers  to  judge  for  themselves.    What-  \ 

"  .     ever  reverence  we  may  feel  for  the  talents  and  the  integrity  of  ! 
*Dr.  Franklin,  we  must  own  the  coincidence  appears  to  us  far  too 
complete  to  be  accidental." 

The  various  versions  of  the  story  may  now  be  added : 


*  See  "Travels  of  John  Davis/'  Quarterly^  \T:I.,  p.  156. 

t  Sadi  was  called  the  "Nightingale  of  a  Thousand  Songs."     His  two 
great  works  were  called  the  Bustan,  or  "Tree  Garden,'*  and  GuUstan,  or  | 

"Rose  Garden."     The  first  complete  translation  of  his  works  was  pub-  | 

liahed  by  Harrington  in  Calcutta  in  1791-'9o.  I 

1 
I 


Fkanklin's  Parable  Against  Persecution.  233 

From  Weems'  Ltpe  of  Feanklin. 
The  Story  of  Abraham. 

1.  And  it  came  to  pass,  after  these  things,  that  Abraham  sat  in  the 
door  of  his  tent,  about  the  going  down  of  the  sun. 

2.  And  behold  a  man,  bowed  with  age,  coming  from  the  way  of  the 
wilderness,  leaning  on  a  statf. 

3.  And  Abraham  arose,  and  met  him,  and  said  unto  him,  "turn  in,  I 
pray  thee,  and  wash  thy  feet,  and  tarry  all  night,  and  thou  shalt  arise 
early  in  the  morning  and  go  on  thy  way/' 

4.  But  the  man  said,  "Nay,  for  I  will  abide  under  this  tree." 

5.  And  Abraham  pressed  him  greatly;  so  he  turned,  and  they  went 
into  the  tent;    and  Abraham  baked  unleavened  bread,  and  they  did  eat. 

6.  And  when  Abraham  saw  that  the  man  blessed  not  God,  he  said  unto 
him,  "Wherefore  dost  thou  not  worship  the  most  high  God,  Creator  of 
heaven  and  earth?"  ' 

7.  And  the  man  answered  and  said,  "I  do  not  worship  thy  God,  neither 
do  1  call  upon  his  name;  for  I  have  made  to  myself  a  god,  which  abideth 
always  in  mine  house,  and  provideth  me  all  things." 

8.  And  Abraham's  zeal  was  kindled  against  the  man,  and  he  arose  and 
fell  upon  him,  and  drove  him  forth  with  blows  into  the  wilderness. 

9.  And  at  midnight  God  called  unto  Abraham,  saying,  "Where  is  the 
stranger  ?" 

10.  And  Abraham  answered  and  said,  "Lord,  he  would  not  worship 
thee,  neither  would  he  call  upon  thy  name,  therefore  have  I  driven  him 
out  from  before  my  face  into  the  wilderness." 

11.  And  God  said,  "Have  I  borne  with  him  these  hundred  and  ninety 
and  eight  years,  and  nourished  him  and  clothed  him,  notwithstanding  his 
rebellion  against  me;  and  couldest  not  thou,  that  art  thyself  a  sinner, 
bear  with  him  one  night?" 

12.  And  Abraham  said,  "Let  not  the  anger  of  my  Lord  wax  hot  against 
his  servant;    lo,  I  have  sinned:    forgive  me,  I  pray  thee.", 

13.  And  he  arose,  and  went  forth  into  the  wilderness,  and  sought  dili- 
gently for  the  man  and  found  him. 

14.  And  returned  with  him  to  his  tent,  and  when  he  had  entreated 
him  kindly,  he  sent  him  away  in  the  morning  with  gifts. 

15.  And  God  spake  again  unto  Abraham  saying,  "For  this  thy  sin,  shall 
thy  seed  'be  afflicted  four  hundred  years  in  a  strange  land :  but  for  thy 
repentance,  I  will  deliver  them;  and  they  shall  come  forth  with  power, 
and  with  gladness  of  heart,  and  with  much  substance." 

From  the  Whole  Works  of  the  Eight  Rev.  Jeremy  Taylor,  D.  D. 

by  eight  rev.  reginald  heber,  d.  d. 

{Vol.  VIII.,  page  232.) 

"I  end  with  a  story  which  I  find  in  the  Jews'  books : 

"When  Abraham  sat  at  his  tent-door,  according  to  his  custom,  waiting 

to  entertain  strangers,  he  espied  an  old  man  stooping  and  leaning  on  his 


234  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

staff,  weary  with  age  and  travail,  comiii.ic  towards  him  who  was  a  hun- 
dred years  of  age:  he  received  liim  kindly,  washed  his  feet,  provided  [ 
supper,  caused  him  to  sit  down:  but  observing  that  the  old  man  ate  and  j 
prayed  not,  nor  begged  for  a  blessing  on  his  meat,  he  asked  him  why  he  i 
did  not  worship  the  God  of  heaven.  The  old  man  told  him  that  he  wor-  j 
shipped  the  fire  only,  and  acknowledged  no  other  god.  At  which  answer  ) 
Abraham  grew  so  zealously  angry,  that  he  thrust  the  old  man  out  of  hia  | 
tent,  and  exposed  him  to  all  the  evils  of  the  night,  and  an  unguarded  J 
condition.  When  the  old  man  was  gone,  God  called  to  Abraham,  and  I 
asked  him  where  the  stranger  was:  he  replied,  'I  thrust  him  away  be-  ; 
cause  he  did  not  worship  thee.'  God  answered  him,  'I  have  suffered  him 
these  hundred  years,  although  he  dishonored  me;  and  couldst  not  thou  | 
endure  him  one  night,  when  he  gave  thee  no  trouble?'  Upon  this,  saith  i 
the  story,  Abraham  fetched  him  back  again  and  gave  him  hospitable  I 
entertainment  and  wise  instruction.  'Go  thousand  do  likewise,  and  thy  j 
charity  will  be  rewarded  by  the  God  of  Abraham.'"  | 


Stoby  feom  the  Boost^x  of  Sadi.  I 

{Eclectic  Review  on  Harrington's  Works  of  Sddee,  1810.)  | 

'T.  have  heard  that  once  during  a  whole  week  no  son  of  the  road  ( trav-  I 

eller)  came  to  the  hospitable  dwelling  of  the  friend  of  God  (Abraham),  | 

whose  amiable  mind  led  him  to  observe  it,  as  a  rule,  not  to  eat  in  the  | 

morning,  unless  some  needy  person  arrived  from  a  journey.     He  went  | 

out  and  turned  his  eyes  towards  every  place:    he  viewed  the  valley  on  I 

all  sides,  and  beheld  in  the  desert  a  solitary  man,  resembling  the  willow,  * 

whose  head  and  beard  were  whitened  with  the  snow  of  age.    To  encourage  | 

him  he  called  him  friend,  and,  agreeable  to  the  manners  of  the  munifi-  | 

cent,  gave  him  an  invitation,  saying,  *0  apple  of  my  eye,  perform  an  act  | 

of  courtesy,  by  partaking  of  my  bread  and  salt!'    He  assented,  arose  and  | 

stepped  forward  readily;    for  he  knew  the  disposition  of  his  host,  on  | 

whom  be  peace!     The  associates  of  Abraham's  hospitable  dwelling  seated  | 

the  old  man  with  respect.    The  table  was  ordered  to  be  spread,  and  the  5 

company  placed  themselves  around.    When  the  assembly  began  to  utter,  ■* 

in  the  name  of  the  most  merciful  and  compassionate  God!  (the  Moham-  \ 

medan  grace  before  meat ) ,  and  not  a  word  was  heard  to  proceed  from  \ 

the  old  ipaan,  Abraham  addressed  him  in  such  terms  as  these,  *01d  man,  \ 

stricken  in  years,  thou  appearest  not  to  me  to  be  in  faith  and  zeal  like  | 

other  old  men:    for  is  it  not  a  positive  law  to  invoke,  at  the  time  of  eat-  i 

ing  thy  bread,  that  Divine  Providence  from  w^hence  it  is  deriv^ed?'     He  | 

replied,  'I  take  in  hand  no  custom  wliicli  I  have  not  heard  from  my  \ 

priest,  who  worshippeth  fire.'    The  holy  prophet  perceived  this  depraved  ) 

old  man  to  be  a  Gueber,  and  finding  him  an  infidel,  drove  him  away  in  \ 

miserable  condition:    the  polluted  beiu.g  rejected  by  those  who  are  pure.  1 

The  angel  Gabriel  descended  from  the  glorious  and  omnipotent  God  with  ; 

this  severe  rebuke,  'O  friend  I  have  supported  him  through  a  life  of  one  ^ 
hundred  years,  and  thou  hast  conceived  an  abhorrence  for  him  at  first 
sight.    If  a  man  pay  adoration  to  fire,  shouldst  thou  therefore  withhold 
the  hand  of  liberality?'  " 


Franklin's  Parable  Against  Persecution.  235 

Another  Version  from  Sadi. 
"Selections  from  the  Bostan  of  Sadi,  translated  into  English  verse  hy 
DavN'souue  Melancthon  Strong,  Captain  H.  M.'s  Tenth  Bengal  Lancers. 
London:    Triibner  &  Co.,  8  and  GO  Paternoster  Row.     1872."     Sadi  wa3 
born  at  Shiraz  about  118-1  A.  D. 

A  Story  of  Abraham. 
"  I've  heard,  a  whole  week,  no  son  of  the  road 

Came  to  the  door  of  Abram's  blest  abode, 

So  kind  was  he,  he  would  not  break  his  fast, 

Lest  by  the  way  some  hungry  trav'ller  passed. 

He  went  without  and  look'd  on  ev'ry  side, 

And  cast  his  glance  around  the  desert  wide. 

A  man  he  saw,  like  willow  bending  low, 

His  hair  and  head  were  white  with  age's  snow. 

Then  Abraham  a  hearty  welcome  gav,e, 

As  is  the  way  of  gen'rous  men  and  brave, 

'O  pupil  of  mine  eyes,'  to  him  he  said, 

*Be  pleased  to  share  with  me  my  salt  and  bread.' 

The  man  said,  *Yes,'  and  quickly  made  to  start; 

He  knew  the  qualities  of  Abram's  heart. 

From  Abram's  house,  came  forth  each  himible  slave, 

And  to  the  wretch  a  seat  of  honor  gave. 

He  then  commanded,  and  the  cloth  they  spread, 

And  all  around  they  sat  to  share  the  bread. 

When  each  'Bismillah'  said,  in  accents  clear. 

The  guest  spoke  not,  a  sound  reached  no  one's  ear. 

*I  see,  old  man,'  he  said,  'thou  dost  not  feel 

As  old  men  do,  sincerity  and  zeal. 

Is  it  not  right  when  thou  thy  food  dost  eat. 

That  thou  shouldst  first  thy  Maker's  name  repeat?' 

He  said,  'No  rule  have  I  and  no  belief, 

But  what  I  .hear  from  the  old  Geber  chief.' 

Then  understood  the  seer  of  Fortune  bright, 

That  he  a  Geber  was,  this  ruin'd  wight. 

He  drove  him  off  a  stranger  in  disgrace, 
,    Pure  and  impure  should  not  sit  face  to  face. 

From  the  Creator,  then  an  angel  came, 

WTio  thus,  in  awful  tones,  did  Abram  blame. 

*A  hundred  years  to  him  life  bread  I  gave, 

But  in  one  moment  thou  dost  shun  my  slave. 

If  he  to  fire  in  prayer  his  hands  doth  fold, 

Why  shouldest  thou  thy  bounty's  hand  withhold?' " 

The  following  interesting  paragrapli  is  extracted  from  a  recent 
letter  of  Eabbi  E.  IST.  Calisch,  of  Eichmond,  addressed  to  the 
editor : 

There  is  a  tradition  that  Abraham  was  wont  to  sit  at  his  door  and 
invite  all  travellers  to  enter  and  partake  of  refreslmient.     When  they 


236  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

had  finished  he  would  ask  them  to  give  thanks,  and  in  reply  to  their  i 

inquiry  to  whom  they  should  give  tlianks,  he  would  reply,  "To  him  to  ! 

whom  we  mufct  all  i>ive  thanks,  to  the  God  who  rules  in  heaven  and  on  '> 

earth,  out  of  whose  hand  we  have  eaten."  This  tradition  is  given  in  the 
Midrasch  Kabbah,  in  explanation  of  Genesis  xxi.  33. 

The  Midrasch  Kabbah  is  a  collection  of  rabbinical  traditions,  legends, 
homiletical  discourses,  etc.  It  contains  many  passages  of  high  ethical 
thought  and  splendid  morals,  but  it  contains  also  many  fantastic  and 
grotesque  passages. 

There  is  an  earlier  tradition  which  deals  with  Abraham's  relations 
with  fire  worshippers,  but  in  this  he  is  the  persecutee  and  not  the  per- 
secutor. It  says  that  Abraham  was  born  in  the  time  of  Ximrod,  the 
ruler  of  Chaldea,  that  his  (Abraham's)  greatness  had  been  foretold,  and 
that  Nimrod  had  therefore  caused  all  male  children  to  be  killed    (this.  ! 

tradition  is  the  forerunner  of  the  Pharaohnic  edict  and  the  massacre  of  j 

the  infants  by  Herod).     Abraham's  mother  hid  him  in  a  cave  when  he  | 

was  born,  and  the  angel  Gabriel  fed  him  on  milk  and  honey.     When  he  { 

was  old  enough  to  walk  ( some  rabbis  say  this  was  at  ten  days ) ,  he  came  * 

forth,  to  the  astonishment  of  his  mother.     His  father,  Terach,  was  an  | 

idol  manufacturer.     One  day  Abraham  took  a  torch  and  destroyed  all  t 

the  smaller  idols  in  his  father's  shop,  and  put  the  torch  in  the  hand  of  ; 

the  largest.    His  father  returning,  demanded  who  had  done  this.    Abra-  | 

ham  replied  by  pointing  to  the  largest  idol,  with  the  burning  torch  still  | 

in  his  hand.    Terach  said  it  was  folly  to  suppose  that  the  idol  had  done  j 

it,  for  the  reason  that  he  could  not  move  or  help  himself.    Abraham  then  j 

replied,  ''What  folly  to  worship  it  then."    For  this  attack  upon  the  gods  I 

Abraham  was  taken  before  Nimrod,  who  was  a  fire  worshipper.    Ximrod  \ 

said,  "Thou  wilt  not  adore  these  idols,  then  worship  fire."     Abraham  ? 

replied,  "Why  not  water,  which  quenches  fire?"     Ximrod,  "Very  well,  | 

then  worship  water."     Abraham,  "Why  not  the  clouds,  which  give  the  \ 

water?"  Ximrod,  "Very  well  then,  the  clouds."  Abraham,  "Rather  the 
winds,  which  move  the  clouds."  Ximrod,  "So  be  it,  the  winds."  Abra- 
ham, "But  a  man  can  stand  against  the  wind  and  build  it  out  of  his 
house."  Then  X^imrod's  patience  was  exhaused  and  in  a  fury  he  cried 
out,  "Fire  is  my  god,  and  it  shall  consume  you."  By  his  order  Abraham 
was  cast  into  a  fiery  furnace,  heated  to  such  a  degree  that  the  men  who  | 

cast  him  in  were  consumed  by  the  flames  and  the  heat  that  rushed  out  ] 

upon  them.    He  came  forth  unscatlied.     This  tradition  is  given  in  Mid-  » 

rasch  Kabbah  to  Genesis,  section  38,  as  commentary  on  Genesis  xi.  28,  i 

the  phrase  "Ur  of  the  Chaldees."  In  Hebrew  "Ur"  is  identified  with  "or,"  1 

"fire,"  and  has  reference  to  Abraham's  rescue  from  the  fire  of  the  Chal-  - 

deans.    The  place  is  given  as  Cuthra,  on  the  Tigris.  I 

It  is  possible  that  Franklin's  incident  has  a  Jewish  origin,  for  it  has  | 

a  rabbinic  flavor  and  it  is  by  just  such  incidents  that  they  drove  home 
their  moral  lessons,  but  I  cannot  place  anything  nearer  to  it  than  the  | 

tradition  I  gave  you  first,  about  Abraham's  hospitality.     It  is  possible  •: 

that  the  incident  may  have  a  Mohammedan  origin,  or  even  Persian,  be-  ! 

cause  of  its  matter.     Should  I  be  able  to  locate  it  in  Jewish  tradition,  | 

I  will  at  once  communicate  with  you.  | 


Old  Letters  of  the  Seventeenth  Century.         237 

/  LIBRAKY  OF  DR.  GEORGE  HACKE. 

Amoug  the  influential  Germans  who  settled  on  the  Eastern 
Shore  in  the  early  days  of  the  colony  was  Thomas  Ilarmanson, 
"a  German  born  in  the  Dominion  of  Brandenberg,  but  now  an 
inhabitant  in  Northampton  Co.,  professing  the  Protestant  re- 
ligion." (Deed  in  Northampton  county  records,  dated  October 
24,  168-]-.)  Still  earlier  was  Dr.  George  Hacke,  "born  in  1623, 
practicioner  in  physicke,  a  high  German  born  in  y"  city  of  Collyne 
under  y®  Palatinate."  (Same  records.)  Both  left  descendants  in 
Virginia.*  The  will  of  Dr.  Hacke  was  dated  March  5,  1664,  and 
was  proved  April  17,  1665;  names  wife  Ann  as  sole  executrix; 
gives  a  cow  calf  to  each  of  his  servants  and  makes  Major  Gold- 
smith and  Capt.  Howell  guardians  of  his'  three  children. 

His  inventory  mentions  a  hall,  middle  room,  entry,  inward 
room.    Total  value  of  personalty,  20,347  pounds  of  tobacco. 

His  library,  inventoried  26  June,  1665,  was: 

High  German  and  Dutch  Boohs — flive  books  in  foL,  100 ;  twoe 
bookes  in  4to,  060;  4  bookes  in  8to;  8  bookes  more  in  Sto,  080; 
3  bookes  more  in  foL,  050;  a  parcell  of  old  bookes,  050.  Latin 
Boohs — 17  bookes  in  4to  and  large  Sto,  340;  37  bookes  some  in 
Sto,  12mo  and  24mo,  350.  English  Books — One  Bible  and  8 
small  books,  100;  11  paper  bookes,  150  (pds.  tobacco). 

(For  the  period  this  library  was  a  large  one.) 


OLD  LETTERS  OF  THE  SEVENTEENTH  CENTURY. 

In  an  old  record  book  of  Charles  City  county  are  found  recorded 
some  letters  of  the  seventeenth  century  which  are  interesting  for  the 
light  they  throw  upon  those  times.  There  were  two  important  causes 
which  for  many  years  brought  emigrants  to  Virginia — the  tobacco  trade 
and  thie.  civil  wars  in  England.  Merchants,  as  a  rule,  are  averse  to  war, 
and  m^ny  prominent  merchants  of  London,  Bristol,  PlvTiiouth  and  other 
English  cities  sought  the  El  Dorado  that  lay  beyond  the  seas.  "I  would 
wish  I  could  heare  in  wt  condicon  yu  live  in,  for  I  fear  if  these  times  hold 
long  amongst  us,  we  must  be  all  faine  to  come  to  Virginia."  So  wrote 
William  Hallam,  a  salter  of  Bnrnham  in  Essex  county,  England,  to 
Daniel  Lleweilin,  one  of  the  justices  and  a  captain  of  militia  in  the 
county  of  Charles  City.  In  1636,  Robert  Hallam  obtained  a  grant  of 
1,000  acres  in  Henrico  county,  Va.,  on  the  James  river,  opposite  to 

*  Thomas  Harmanson  was  ancestor  of  Senators  Henry  Tazev>ell  and 
Littleton  Waller  Tazewell. 


238  William  and  i!^rAiiY  College  Quarterly. 

Falling  Cieck,  for  importing  twenty  persons  into  the  colony.     In  1G37 

he  obtained  a  patent  for   1,000  acres — probably  a  confirmation  of  the  { 

former  grant.    He  was  dead  before  May  C,  lO.'JS,  since  at  that  time  "Ann  | 

Hallam    widow,  and  the  heirs  of  Kobcrt  Hallam,"  obtained  a  grant  for  I 

1,000  acres  due   them  by  virtue  of  a  deed  of  bargain   and  sale  from  '. 

"Arthur  Bayley,  merchant."     Anne  Hallam  appears  to  have  married,  j 
secoildly,  Daniel  Llewellin.             Va.';>. '• ',-          ..•    -  >     '.-k.,.^   y'.^^^'/rrr  ^''^^'-        \ 

This  latter  in  1042  patented  8oG  acres  near  Shirley  Hundred  on  James  | 

river,  which  grant  in  IGGG  was  confirmed  by  another  patent  to  Daniel  '{ 

Llewellin,  '"son  and  heir  of  the  aforesaid  Capt.  Daniel  Llewellin."     The  { 

son,  according  to  the  records  of  Henrico  county,  was  born  in  1G47,  and  \ 

calls  himself  in  1G77  "son-in-law  (step-son)   of  Capt.  John  Stith,"  which  1 

seems  to  show  that  Capt.  Stith  married  Capt.  Daniel  Llewellin's  widow,  ♦ 

and  doubtless  second  wife,  "the  sister  unknown,"  in  1648,  mentioned  by  j 

William  Mason,  and  the  probable  mother  of  Daniel  Llewellin,  the  second.  j 

This  second  Daniel  left  no  sons,  but  a  sister  appears  to  have  married  j 

Col.  Littleberry  Epes,*  of  Charles  City,  since  Llewellin  Epes  was  his  son.  ; 

Mr.  Arthur  Bayley  had  a  lot  in  Jamestown,  besides  other  plantations  •■ 

in  Virginia,  and  Mr.  Rogei-~Preston,  who  is  also  mentioned  in  these  let-  | 

ters,  was  also  a  resident  of  Virginia.     In  1752  Lewis  Hallam,  who  was  I 
the  principal  tragedian  in  America  before  the  Eevolution,  made  his  dehut  \ 

in  the  theatre  in  Williamsburg.  ] 


William  Hallam  to  Capt.  Daxiel  Llewellin.  | 

Brother  Llewellin,    ...    to  hear  of    .    .    .    y^  the  Lord  if 

it  be  his  pleasure    ...    I  praise  God  I  and  my  wife    .    .    .    .  I 

health  with  \^  rest  of  o""  friends  duely  .    .    .    are  like  to  continue,  | 

.    .    .    but  o'"  kingdom  is  in  a  sad  condieon  (war)  waiging  still  \ 

amongst  us  so  y^  tradeing    .    .    .    and  his  family  that  hath  lived  \ 

well  (has  been)  brought  low  to  want.     Concerning  the  tobacco  f 

y*^  intend  to  send  me  y^  next  year,  I  have  taken  order  .    .    .    Ar-  ? 

thur  Baley  to  take  it  in  and  do  desire  to  take  bills  of  lading  from  ; 

him  in  my  name.    I  am  satisfied  y*^  whatever  y^  will  and  bring  <' 

15  1  freight  and  caske    ...    I  desire  y"  good  brother  that  it  . 

may  be,  good  tobacco  and  that  I  may  not  fail  of  it  this  retome  \ 

of  Mr.     .     .     .     according  as  y"^  have  written  y"  will  do  and  I  \ 

heartily  thank  y"  for  y^  pains  in  it.    I  hope  when  it  shall  plea-se  ' 

ye  Lord  to  send  it  to  my  hands  I  shalbe  in  some  capacity  to  send  \ 

y"  and  my  sister  something  unto  whom  I  desjre  y"  that  both  mine  \ 
and  my  -^vife's  love  may  be  remembered  and  to  y®  rest  of  your 

*  The  emigrant  Epes  was  Lieut.  Col.  Francis  Epes,  who  was  father  of 
Lieut.  Col.  Francis  Epes  (162S-1G78),  who  married  Elizabeth  (Little- 
berry?),  and  was  father  of  Col.  Littleberry  Epes,  of  Charles  City  county. 


Ou)  Letters  of  the  Sevexteextii  Century.         239 

cliildron.  1  have  spoken  to  Eogcr  Preston  about  his  tob"  and  w* 
he  intends  to  do  in  it  I  know  not,  but  howev""  for  my  pt  I  accept 
of  yo""  ptier  aiid  shall  be  ready  to  give  y"  what  discharge  y"  shall 
require,  if  Mr.  Bayly  doth  not.  I  hope  y"*  have  and  will  do  what 
y"  can  for  me  in  it  and  I  desire  y"  to  be  careful  of  my  sister 
Mason  that  she  may  be  satisfied  for  her  debt.  I  would  wish  I 
could  heare  in  w*^  condicon  y"  live  in,  for  I  fear  if  these  times 
hold  long  amongst  us,  we  must  be  all  faine  to  come  to  Virginia. 
Thus  w*^  my  desires  of  all  yo""  good  healths  and  love  to  all  o*" 
friends  remember*^,  for  p^'sent  I  committ  y"  to  God  resting 

Yo'"  Lo:  Brother,  William  Hallam. 

Superscr. 

To  his  very  loveing  Brother  Mr.  Daniell  Llewellin  at  Shirley 
Hundred,  I  pray  deliv.  in  Virginia. 
Eec.  Sept.  24,  1G56. 

William  Masox  to  Capt.  Llewellin. 

Loueing  Brother, 

It  is  fallen  unto  me  by  reason  I  marryed  w*^  yo'"  sister-in-law 
'M^^  ^Margaret  ]\Iason  to  write  y"  in  answ'"  of  a  Lre  y^  y*^  writt  unto 
her  bearing  date  ffeb^"  y®  -\~  1647,  and  whereas  y"  delvd  to  her  ex- 
ceptions, as  it  doth  app'"  by  yo^  Lre,  of  a  Lre  y^  was  writt  unto  y^ 
by  my  wife's  son,  she  gaue  no  such  ord""  as  to  write  anything  y* 
miglit  iustly  discourage  but  y*  I  shall  entreat  y^  to  pass  by  as  pro- 
ceeding from  a  very-  young  man,  but  these  are  to  give  y"  to  under- 
stand that  w-^in  this  month  or  6  weekes  at  farthest  I  haue  reed 
for  this  3  hds  of  tobbo  of  M""  Llewellin  is  .  .  .  what  I  could 
get  of  them  w'^^  was  but  of  small  value  and  I  do  understand  was 
bad  .  .  .  that  these  were  the  first  three  sent  ^  agreement,  one 
year  being  neglected  since  y"  sent  ou'"  the  first  3  hhds,  and  there- 
fore yo''  sister  doth  entreat  y"^  and  I  shall  also  entreat  y""  likewise 
that  y^  will  send  ou^  so  much  as  will  make  up  the  number  due  by 
agreem*  for  time  passed.  I  will  assure  y^  that  we  haue  had 
sev'^all  great  losses  that  haue  befallen  us  and  o'*  charge  is  greater 
by  reason  of  y^  differences  that  are  in  o\  kingdom,  tradeing  is 
dead  y^  we  must  of  necessity  labor  to  compass  what  is. abroad 
...  if  possible.  Mr.  Bayley  can  certify  y""  w^  .  .  .  and  M*" 
Lewellin  for  y^  tobb.  pray  y"  be  pleaded  to  take  y^  contents  thereof 
unto  yo'"  brotherly  consideracon  and  let  us  heare  from  v'^  as  soon 


240  William  and  Maby  College  Quarterly. 

conveniently  y"  may  if  possible  by  y®  first  retorne.  So  not  doubt- 
ing, with  my  kind  lone  and  best  respects  unto  y*^  and  my  sister 
unknown  as  also  my  wifes  I  committ  y"  and  all  yo"  to  y*  ptecon 
of  y®  Almighty,  and  will  eu'"  rest 

IV  Loueing  Brother,  W.  ^Mason. 

London  y^  19^^  of  7"^'  1G48. 

I  thought  good  to  acquaint  y^  and  my  sister  that  my  little  cou- 
sin yo""  son-in-law  is  very  well  and  prettie  scholler  I  hope  y'^  will 
haue  comfort  of  him. 

Supscr. 

To  his  Loueing  Brother  M'"  Daniell  Llewellin  liveing  in  Vir-  I 

ginia  in  Shirley  Hundred  these  p'^seilt.  I 

Pray  W  Bayley  deliv'"  this  w^^  yo^  owne  hands.  Rec.  April  14*^,  I 

1657.  I 

Louing  Brother,  yo^  Lre  ^'  M*"  Bayley  I  have  rec"^  dated  y®  4*^^  1 

of  Mc^  1649    .    .    .    unto  me  y*^  you  will  pay  M'^  Bayley  freight  | 

at  y®  rate  y^  sell  it  in  Virginia     .     .     .     50 1  of  tob^  and  caske  i 

and  yo^  bushell  and  the  rest.    You  say  you  will  pay  in  tobb°  and  i 

caske  according  to  agreement  w^^  I  freely  yield  to  any  reasonable  \ 

motion,  but  as  for    ...    I  shall  be  a  great  loser  considering  y*  | 

great  charge  that  will  ev'"^  way  arise  upon  y^  same.     I  would  { 

rather  that  y"  would  ^  forme  y®  agreem*  that  was  made  w^^  Mr.  | 

Bayly  w^^  I  hope  y^  may  ^  forme    Brother  y"  write  of  yo''  hin-  j 

drances  that  y"^  haue  had,  the  truth  is  both  my  wife  and  myselfe  ] 

are  very  sovrj  to  hear  of  it  but  y'^  know  that  we  must  look  for  \ 

troubles  in  this  world.  Man  is  borne  to  sorrow  as  the  sparkes 
fly  upwards.  Our  Sauiour  saith  y*  in  the  world  y®  shall  haue 
troubles  but  in  another  y^  shall  haue  peace.    God  giues  us  a  liuely  \ 

faith  to  get  with  Jesus  Christ  in  whom  is  peace  y^  passeth  all  i 

understanding,  though  we  may  meet  with  troubles  here  yet  to         ■] 
leame  that  lesson  that  y®  apostles  hath  taught  us  in  all  condicons  * 

to  be  content  and  willingly  to  beare  y"  punishment  of  o*"  iniquitys 
laboring  to  keepe  faith  and  a  good  conscience  in  all  things. 
Brother  it  is  not  my  desirt  to  presse  y"  beyond  yo""  abilitie  w^^  is 
best  knowne  to  yo^'selfe  only  keepe  a  good  conscience  w*^^  I  hope  is 
yo^  endeauor  the  business  y'  is  in  difference  betweene  us  cannot 
be  denyed,  but  it  is  a  due  debt  from  y"^  to  me  and  my  wife  and 
truly  there  is  so  many  of  little  children  y'  claime  also  a  portion  in 


Old  Letters  of  the  Seventeenth  Centuet.         241 

it  and  I  must  informe  you  y^  o""  trading  since  o""  troubles  began 
in  England  is  much  decayed  and  since  I  was  married  to  yo""  sister 
there  hath  been  mucli  of  y®  estate  lost  that  both  myselfe  and  she 
thougJit  would  have  beene  veiy  good  and  therefore  I.  would  de-, 
sire  you  to  take  this  into  yo''  consideration.  For  my  p*^  I  will 
reffer  this  businesse  to  ^M'"  Bayly  and  hope  y'  y''  p'forme  yo""  first 
agreement,  wch  I  do  confirme  by  this  my  Lre,  and  if  of  necessity 
I  must  come  to  a  new  agreement  I  must  and  do  by  this  my  Lre 
refer  the  businesse  to  M""  Bayly  and  w^  he  and  3'Ou  shall  agree  on 
I  will  stand  to  and  do  confirme  by  this  my  Lre  only  I  desire  that 
conscience  I  mean  a  good  conscience  may  haue  a  share  in  this 
agreement  that  what  shalbe  agreed  on  may  be  with  a  good  con- 
science and  also  p'f  ormed  and  yo'^  little  son-in-law  Eo :  Hallam  is 
in  good  health  and  doth  remember  his  duty  to  you  and  my  sister 
his  mother  he  is  pleased  and  set  pmtice  to  y*  trade  of  a  tailor  to 
mj  son-in-law  Wood  that  married  with  my  wife's  daughter  Ann 
Hallam  who  is  in  a  fine  way  of  trade  and  liueth  well  and  is  a  very 
honest  man  Make  yo^  a  ceo*  the  boy  is  provided  for  and  shall  not 
want  an}i:hing  to  y^  best  of  my  endeauor  I  beleiue  other  of  his 
ffreinds  beleive  he  is  a  very  pretty  witty  boy  and  well  approved  of 
by  his  M""  and  also  other  of  his  freinds  I  have  beene  somewhat 
tedious  but  I  hope  y'^  will  excuse  me  onely  w^^  my  kinde  loue  and 
my  wife's  rememb^*^^^  unto  y"  and  my  sister  and  committing  y* 
and  yo'^  and  all  that  y"^  haue  unto  y®  blessing  and  pteccon  of  the 
Almighty    Will  ev^  rest 

Yo^  Lo :  brother  William  !^Li30N. 

Lond:  -f  21st  of  Aug.  IGoO. 
Superscr. 

To  his  Loueing  brother,  M^  Daniell  Llewellin  this  in  "Virginia 
I  pray  you. 

Mr.  Bayly  I  pray  deliuer  this  Lre  with  yo^  owne  hands. 

Eec.  April  14,  1657. 

Loving  Brother  and  Sister  Lewellin  my  hearty  love  and  cor- 
dial respects  presented  to  you  and  all  o^  cousins  how  many  I 
know  not.  I  have  not  rec^  any  Lre  from  you  for  a  long  time  not 
this  3  years  I  am  certain,  and  I  therefore  know  not  whether  y" 
are  all  liueing  or  how  it  hath  pleased  y®  Lord  to  dispose  of  y". 
I  praise  y^  Lord  y*^  I  am  at  p^sent  in  good  health  w'^^  Robert  Hal- 
lam your  Sonne  who  doth  rememb'"  his  duty  to  you  love  to  all  his 


242  Willia:m  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

sisters  and  brothers  if  any,  but  it  hath  pleased  Y-  Lord  to  take 
away  from  me  my  wife  twoe  yea  res  since  and  in  my  form*"  Lre 
I  gave  y"  an  acco*^  of,  which  I  hope  y"  haue  or  will  receive  so  that 
I  am  as  yet  a  single  man  and  unmarried  till  it  shall  please  the 
Lord  to  ord""  it  otherwise. 

Now  brother  and  sister  y*  bearer  hereof  my  kinsman  Thomas 
Hallam  eldest  son  of  my  late  brother  Thomas  Ilallam  haueing  a 
desire  to  go  beyond  sea  in  regard  of  a  troublesome  land  that  we 
haue  and  do  line  in,  o'"  trade  growing  very  very  bad  and  haueing 
great  losses  at  sea  wliereby  that  $5tion  wh"^^  was  left  him  by  his 
late  father  is  much  decayed  I  thought  best  with  y^  ad\'ice  of 
•his  friends  to  comend  him  to  you  desiring  of  y"  brother  and  sister 
that  as  I  have  becne  and  am  careful  to  ^vide  for  yours  in  such 
a  way  that  if  he  takes  good  courses  may  another  day  this  .  .  . 
helpe  and  comfort  to  y"  and  y®  reste  of  his  freinds  so  that  .  .  . 
as  much  as  in  y^  lyeth  so  long  as  he  shall  continue  vrith  yo  be 
careful  ou""  liim  and  advise  him  y^  best  way  y"  can  whenever 
.  .  .  his  goods.  I  am  y^  more  bold  wth  y"  not  that  I  doubt  of 
yo'"  brotherly  affeccons  and  loue  to  me  wch  I  and  my  %vife  found 
whilst  we  continued  in  y"^  lande  with  wch  I  do  thankfully  ac- 
knowledge, to  have  a  care  ou^  this  young  man  in  regard  y^  he  is 
now  far  from  his  friends  and  perhaps  the  voyage  may  be  some- 
what tedious  to  him  not  being  nsed  to  y^  sea,  therefore  I  pray  let 
him  not  want  anything  that  lyeth  in  yo^  power  to  help  him  and 
I  would  desire  that  y®  portion  of  tobacco  wch  is  due  to  me  from 
you  to  pay  it  ou*"  to  him  so  that  he  may  haue  somewhat  to  send 
ou^  into  England  this  returne.  I  shall  expect  and  be  very  glad 
to  heare  from  y"  by  y^  first  in  y®  meantime.  And  my  desires  to 
God  shalbe  for  y""  health  and  prservacons  committing  you  and 
yo"  to  y®  ^  tecon  of  Grod  I  shall  remain  ev'" 

Yo*"  alfectionate  Loueing  Brother, 

William  Halla^i. 

Bumham  in  Essex,  20*^  of  7^^  1655. 

ffor  his  loueing  Brother  Mr.  Daniel  Lewelling  at  Shirley 
Hundred  these  I  pray  Delv'"  in  Virginia. 

ReC^  April  13,  1657. 

Loueing  Brother, 

These  are  to  give  y"  to  understand  that  I  rec'd  yo^  Lre  dated 
ye  ;j^|th  q£  Aprill,  1655,  wherein  3'ou  do  express  yo'"  desire  to  heare 
from  me  and  y'  in  regard  y"  grow  auncient  that  y^  are  willing  to 


Old  Letters  of  the  Seventeexth  Century,         243 

satisfle  y*^  tobacco  that  is  due  unto  me  I  give  y^  thanks  for  the 
same  and  do  not  doubt  but  y"  will  pforme  what  y"  so  freely  offer 
but  I  shall  not  send  ou""  for  y®  same,  it  so  falling  out  y*-  my  sonn 
in  law  Thomas  Hallam  is  now  entering  upon  a  voyage  for  Vir- 
ginia and  I  hope  shall  deliv'"  this  Lre  himselfe  into  yo""  hands  if 
y^  Lord  be  pleased  to  send  him  a  safe  passage  with  it  please  God 
so  to  do  I  beseech  y'^  and  my  sister  to  give  him  kind  entertain- 
ment as  the  sonn  of  my  p''  dear  bro :  Mr.  Tho.  Hallam;  truth  it 
is  he  hath  had  crosses  both  by  sea  and  land  and  by  that  means 
is  put  besides  any  calling  here  and  upon  sev^'all  debates  betv/een 
his  uncle  Wm,  Hallam  myselfe  and  my  wife  and  himselfe  all 
did  agree  the  best  way  was  that  he  should  goe  for  Virginia,  him- 
selfe being  fully  resolved,  having  some  good  encouragement  that 
he  should  come  to  a  loueing  uncle  and  aunt  who  would  well  ad- 
vise him  and  assist  him  that  so  he  might  be  settled  in  some  way 
for  his  future  good  as  I  have  said  before  so  beseech  y"^  again  to 
do  him  all  y  good  y^  can  and  myself  and  my  wife  shall  ev""  rest 
obliged  unto  you  and  my  sister,  who  I  p'sume  will  not  forgette 
y®  courtesie  of  prdecessor.  as  for  the  tobb°  y^  is  due  unto  me  I  do 
freely  give  this  same  to  my  sonne  Tho.  Hallam  be  it  more  or  less 
for  my  p^  I  have  so  little  minded  the  same  of  late  that  I  do  not 
know  how  the  acco.  doth  stand  at  p'sent,  but  shall  reffer  xhe  same 
to  yo^  o^vne  conscience  and  upon  y^  acco*^  shall  wholly  discharge 
you,  deliv^  over  y^  sd  tobb°  to  my  sonne  Thomas  Hallam  unto 
whom  I  do  wholly  consigne  the  same,  but  let  him  haue  that  y*^  is 
good  and  well  cured  and  upon  the  receipt  of  a  Ire  from  y""  and 
my  sonn  that  you  have  concluded  the  same,  by  y®  next  I  will  if 
God  p'mitt  send  you  a  full  and  suffic*  discharge,  my  sonn  doth 
come  on  in  the  ship  called  the  Adventur^,  M^  Young  being  Capt. 
and  hath  p*^  for  his  passage  six  pounds  and  he  hath  laded  on 
board  one  long  deale  chist  with  beneficiall  things  in  y^  same  to 
pass  off  in  Virginia  wch  I  pray  good  Brother  let  him  haue  yo'" 
best  advice  in  and  that  he  may  haue  good  goods  for  the  same  ho 
hath  also  one  boxe  w^^'  some  other  necessaries  and  one  bed  and  2 
blanketts  wch  I  hope  wth  himselfe  will  all  haue  a  safe  arrivall  at 
his  intended  haven ;  and  further  these  are  to  giue  you  to  under- 
stand that  if  att  any  time  y^  you  think  goode  to  send  here  ou'"  any 
hhds  of  good  tobb°.  I  shall  be  very  willing  and  industrious  to  putt 
them  off  for  you  and  to  retume  y^  goods  according  to  yo""  ord*" 
and  shall  as  faithfully  <p  forme  ev'^y  thing  for  yo""  good  and  upon 


244  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

as  easie  tearms  as  any  you  sliall  imploy,  so  comitting  the  contents 
hereof  unto  yo'"  consideracon,  in  treating  yo'"  fav""  and  loue  towards 
my  sonn  Thomas  Hallam  in  ev''y  ^3t'cu]ar  that  you  are  able  to  do 
him  good  in,  I  take  leave  wth  mine  and  my  wife's  kind  loue  and 
best  respects  to  you  and  my  sister  remembered  and  should  be 
glad  to  see  you  both  here  in  England  in  y®  meantime  I  rest 

Yo^  Loueing  brother,  William  Mason. 

October  y«  5t^  1655. 
Supersc. 

To  his  much  respected  brother  M""  Daniel  Lewellin. 

Eec.  June  28,  1656.  ^'sent. 

Thomas  Hallam's  Receipt. 

Be  it  known  unto  all  men  by  these  p'sents  that  I  Thomas  Hal- 
lam Salter  of  London  by  order  from  M^  William  Mason  and  his 
wife  my  mother  both  of  London  afores'd  and  also  by  virtue  of  a 
Lre  of  Attorney  from  William  Hallam  have  remissed,  released 
and  quitt  claime  and  always  for  them  myself  their  or  my  heires 
or  ass's  do  by  these  p^sents  remise  release  and  quit  claim  unto 
Daniel  Lewellin  of  Essex  in  Virginia  of  and  from  all  and  all. 
manner  of  assons  as  well  reale  as  psonall  debts  accompts  reck- 
onings bills  bonds  dues  or  demands  as  also  of  and  from  one 
bill  of  eight  thousand  seaven  hundred  fivetie  pounds  of  tobb°  and 
cask  due  to  the  estate  of  my  late  father  M^  Thomas  Hallam 
dec'd  and  any  other  matter  or  thing  whatsoever  wch  they  the  said 
W™  Mason  and  mother  or  the  said  W"^  Hallam  or  myself  e  or  their 
or  my  heires  exor^  admn"  or  ass^  ev^  had  now  haue  or  will  shall 
or  may  hereafter  haue  against  the  s^  Daniell  Lewellin,  his  heires 
or  ass^  for  touching  any  matter  cause  or  thing  w^soever  from  the 
beginning  of  y®  world  to  this  p'sent  day.  In  witness  whereof  I 
have  hereunto  sett  my  hand  and  scale  this  14^^  day  of  Apr  ill, 
1656. 

Eecognit  in  Cur.  June  25,  1656.  ^  Thos.  Hallam. 

Teste  Hoel  Pryse,  CI. 

Teste  James  Crewes,  John  Artes, 

Rec.  June  28  scq. 

Power  of  Attorney. 

Know  all  men  by  these  p'sents  that  I  Wm.  Hallam  of  Bum  ham 
in  ye  com  of  Essex  Salter  have  constituted  ordained  and  in  my 


Old  Letters  of  the  Seventeenth  Centuet.         245 

stead  and  place  by  these  psnts  do  depute  and  put  my  welbcloued 
cozen  Thomas  Hallam  of  ye  same  towne  and  com.  Salter  to  be  ray 
true  and  Lawfull  Attorney  in  this  behalfe  for  me  and  in  my  name 
to  ask  demand  and  receive  all  and  all  manner  of  such  sums  and 
quantities  of  tobacco  as  Daniel  Llewelling  of  Shirley  Hundred  or  . 
elsewhere  in  A^irginia  as  is  due  unto  the  sd  Wm.  Hallam  afore- 
said. Glueing  unto  my  sd  Attorney  full  power  and  authority  to 
execute  accomplish  and  pforme  all  and  singular  such  other  law- 
full  acts  and  things  as  shall  be  expedient  and  necessarie  in  and 
about  reconning  of  ye  somes  and  quantities  of  tobacco  in  as 
large  and  ample  maner  as  if  I  myself  were  there  prsent  and  also 
upon  the  receipt  of  ye  sd  tobacco  to  give  unto  ye  sd  Daniel  Llewel- 
ling full  discharge  of  all  reckonings  and  accotts  between  us 
whatsoever  in  witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and 
seale  the  20th  day  of  September  in  ye  yeare  of  o^  Lord  1G55. 

William  Hallam^  ye  scale. 

Sealed  and  delre^  in  y^  presence  of  Edmund  Clouer, 
ye  mk  of  H  S  Hugh  Sherbom. 
Eecd  Apr  13^^  57. 

Eeceipt  of  Tho:mas  Hallam. 

September  23'^  1656. 

Eecd  of  Daniell  Llewellin  ye  day  and  yeare  above  written  two 
thousand  two  hundred  eighty  and  four  pounds  of  tobacco  and 
cask  whereof  four  hundred  and  twenty  pounds  is  upon  ye  accot 
of  my  uncle  W"^  Hallam  in  full  of  all  accotts  betweene  him  and 
ye  sd  Llewellin  and  thirteene  hundred  eighty  and  four  pounds  of 
tobbo  upon  a  debt  of  8750  lbs  of  tobbo  and  caske  due  from  ye 
sd  Llewellin  to  my  mother  Mrs.  Margarett  Hallam  I  say  reed. 

Eec.  Apr.  13*^  1657. 

pr.  me  Tho.  Hallam. 

Eeceipt  of  Edwaed  Dumminger. 

1"*  Febr.  1650  Eecd  of  Daniel  Llewelling  upon  accot  of  W° 
Hallam  of  London  Salter  1  hd  tobbo  weighing  grosse  4808  I  say 
reed  <§  me  by  order  of  Mr.  Arthur  Baley. 

Edward  Dummingee. 

Eec.  Apr.  13,  1657. 


246  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

LETTER  OF  WILLIAM  II.  CABELL*  AXD  JOHX  CAMM.f 
(Communicated  hy  Alexander  Brown,  D.  C.  L.) 

liiciiMOXD^  Jany  23,  180-L 

Dear  Sir:  Although  we  have  not  yet  written  to  you  we  beg 
you  to  be  assured  that  the  delay  has  not  arisen  from  inattention 
to  you,  but  from  a  desire  when  we  do  write  to  give  you  some 
satisfactor}^  information.  The  session  is  now  progressed  to 
within  eight  or  ten  days  of  its  close,  and  still  we  have  passed 
very  few  laws  of  a  general  nature,  our  time  having  been  hereto- 
fore taken  up  principally  with  local  and  unimportant  subjects. 
At  the  end  of  the  session  we  shall  give  you  a  full  account  of  all 
the  public  laws  that  have  passed.  We  take  the  present  oppor- 
tunity to  inform  you  that  we  have  passed  another  general  ticket 
law  for  the  election  of  electors  to  choose  a  President  and  Vice- 
President  of  the  United  States,  by  laying  off  the  State  into 
twenty-four  districts,  upon  the  same  principles  with  the  former 
general  ticket  law.  x4s  this  measure  is  calculated  to  give  us  that 
weight  in  the  election  of  President  w^hicli  the  State  of  Virginia 
is  entitled  to,  we  hope  it  will  give  satisfaction  to  our  constituents 
and  to  the  Repuhlicans  throughout  the  State. 

The  bill  for  the  establishment  of  a  bank  in  Eichmond  is  now 
before  us  and  we  hope  will  pass  both  Houses.  We  flatter  our- 
selves that  this  law,  if  it  passes,  "Rail  be  productive  of  great  ad- 
vantages— not  only  to  the  merchants,  but  still  more  so  to  the 
planters  and  farmers  by  raising  the  price  of  our  produce. 

As  the  present  revenues  of  the  State  are  sufficient  to  defray  the 
expenses  of  the  government,  we  hope  there  will  be  no  necessity 
for  raising  the  taxes.  The  price  of  tobacco  is  much  as  it  has  been 
for  some  time  past — from  36  shillings  to  38  shillings,  and  wheat 
from  6  shillings  6  pence  to  7  shillings.  As  we  have  a  number  of 
letters  to  write  we  hope  you  will  excuse  the  shortness  of  this  com- 
munication, and  refer  you  for  farther  information  to  the  circular 

*  William  H.  Cabell  was  at  this  time  a  member  of  the  House  of  Dele- 
gates of  Virginia,  and  became  governor  and  supreme  judge. 

t  John  Camni  was  third  son  of  President  John  Camm,  of  William  and 
Mary  College.  He  was  born  December  2,  1775,  studied  law,  removed  in 
1794  from  Williamsburg  to  Amherst  county,  where  he  was  clerk  of  the 
court  from  1814  to  1818. 


Some  Minors  in  Virginia.  247 

letter  we  sliall  write  at  the  end  of  the  session      And  beg  you  to 
accept  our  best  vv'ishes  for  your  health  and  happiness. 
We  are,  dear  sir,  your  obedient  servants, 

\Villia:m   H.    Cabell, 
John  Camm. 
To  Capt.  Joel  Franklin,  New  Glasgow,  Amherst  county. 


SOME  MliS^OES  IX  VIKGINIA. 

BY  B.  B.  MINOR,  LL.  D. 

In  the  last  issue  of  this  magazine  was  published  the  first  instalment 
of  the  history  of  the  descendants  of  Minor  Doodes,  of  which  descendantd 
the  distinguished  and  revered  John  B.  Minor,  late  professor  of  Law  at 
the  University  of  Virginia,  was  one.  I  have,  by  request,  been  favored 
with  a  communication  from  Dr.  B.  B.  Minor,  of  Richmond  (formerly 
editor  of  the  Southern  Literary  Messenger)  ^  which  gives  interesting  de- 
tails of  his  own  family  especially. — Editor. 

The  Miners  and  Minors  have  been  regarded  by  some  as  of  dif- 
ferent stocks ;  the  former  being  Xorthem  and  the  latter  South- 
em.  Mr.  Orlin  H.  Miner  (from  New  England),  auditor  of  the 
Stat€  of  Illinois,  told  me  in  Springfield  that  such  was  his  belief, 
and  that  his  family  had  always  borne  the  name  ^liner.  After- 
wards, in  Jersepille,  111.,  his  brother  Samuel,  a  law}'er  of  good 
standing,  told  me  the  same  tiling ;  but  he  invited  me  to  his  office 
to  ex^ftnine  some  family  documents  appertaining,  as  he  assured 
me,  to  his  direct  line  of  descent.  It  appeared  that  he  had  not 
attended  to  his  own  family  relics,  for  one  of  them  was  plainly 
signed  "Nath^  Minor,^^  and  dated  in  early  colonial  times  in  Mas- 
sachusetts. Another  was  a  commission  for  ^'Clarence  Miner,"  of 
the  same  ilk,  as  a  lieutenant  of  the  minute  men  of  Massachusetts, 
dated  3d  July,  1776. 

One  of  these  documents  put  me  in  correspondence  with  Mr. 
Sidney  Miner,  of  New  London,  Conn.,  who  w^as  getting  up  a 
family  genealogy  and  invited  co-operation.  Some  memoranda 
were  sent  him,  and  I  think  he  admitted  that  the  two  modes  of 
spelling  embraced  the  same  blood.  He  is  nov.'  dead ;  but  his  widow 
(second  wife)  is  carrying  on  his  work.  His  family' came  from 
^lassachusetts  and  are  still  living  on  land  which  his  ancestor  ob- 
tained in  the  time  of  Charles  I. 


248  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

Some  years  ago,  in  Philadelphia,  I  examined  a  history  of  Litch- 
fjeld,  Conn.,  and  found  in  it  numerous  Minors  and  Minors.  I 
believe  that  the  two  modes  of  spelling  are  interchangeable.  Very 
recently,  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  my  own  name  was  misprinted. 

Mr.  Sidney  Miner  was  inclined  to  credit  a  tradition  that  the 
name  Bullman  was  changed  to  Miner  by  Edward  III.,  who,  on 
his  way  to  invade  France  in.  1339,  was  aided  by  Henry  Bullman 
from  his  ow^n  iron  works,  with  two  hundred  fighting  men  armed 
with  battle-axes  made  in  his  forges.  The  king  changed  his  name 
and  knighted  him,  and  a  battle-axe  was  placed  on  his  coat  of 
arms,  of  which  an  impression  in  wax  was  sent  me. 

The  high  authority,  Burke,  shows  that  M}Tiers  and  M}'nors 
(spelt  both  ways)  were  in  England  from  the  days  of  the  iSTorman 
conquest  and  Battle  Abby.  In  Thomas  Eobson's  British  Herald, 
etc.,  eight  families  of  Minor  are  mentioned,  with  their  respective 
coats  of  arms,  but  mostly  w^ithout  any  dates,  which  is  a  sign  of 
their  antiquity. 

Mr.  Sidney  Miner's  more  definite  account  is  that  Lieutenant 
Thomas  Miner,  born  in  England  in  1608,  came  to  Massachusetts 
in  1630,  and  from  him  the  Miners  (and  Minors)  are  descended. 
He  once  wrote  me  that  a  Thomas  Miner,  of  his  family,  had  mi- 
grated to  Virginia.  The  name  Thomas  has  been  in  my  family  in 
Virginia  for  the  past  five  generations.  By  her  charter  Virginia 
was  to  have  a  southern  and  a  northern  colony,  and  though  these 
were  not  planted  as  was  intended,  there  was  from  1620  a  northern 
colony  which  held  intercourse  with  Virginia.  She  was  in  fact 
New  England. 

Minor  Doodes  and  Doodes  Minor. 

Mr.  Lucian  Minor,  who  died  whilst  he  was  Professor  of  Law 
in  venerable  William  and  Mary,  was  the  first  one  who  told  me 
about  Doodes  Minor,  and  Hening.  He  thought  that  he  and  I 
might  be  fifth  or  sixth  cousins ;  but  neither  of  us  could  prove  it. 
I  became  acquainted  with  his  brother  Charles  first,  because  he  was 
a  physician  in  Charlottesville  whilst  I  was  a  student  of  the  Uni- 
versity, and,  whether  he  was  of  any  kin  to  me  or  not,  he  was  to 
my  stepmother,  and  had  also  married  her  first  cousin.  All  the 
Minors  of  Albemarle  treated  me  very  cordially.  I  afterwards  be- 
came intimate  with  Dr.  Charles'  brothers,  Lucian  and  John  B., 
and  also  knew  their  sisters  and  brother  Launcelot. 


Some  Minors  in  Viiiginia.  249 

In  2  Hening's  Va.  Stat,  at  Lar.,  p.  308  (Oct.,  1673,  2oth 
Charles  II.),  it  was  enacted  that  Minor  Doodes,  Doodos  Minor 
and  four  others  be  naturalized,  with  all  the  privileges  of  natural 
born  Englishmen.  This  was  in  pursuance  of  a  general  policy 
adopted  by  an  act  of  a  grand  assembly  holden  at  James  Cittie,  20 
Sept.,  1G71,  by  which  "any  stranger  desiring  to  make  this  coun- 
try the  place  of  his  constant  residence  might,  upon  petition  and 
taldng  the  oaths  of  allegiance  and  supremacy,  be  admitted  to 
naturalization. '' 

Afterwards,  3  Hening,  p.  579  (Oct.,  1675,  4th  Anne),  the  nat- 
uralization of  Minor  Doodes,  Doodes  Minor  and  twenty-two 
others,  was  confirmed.  Now  this  Minor  Doodes  was  never  a 
Minor.  In  ISTovember,  1G65,  he  and  his  wife  made  a  deed  which 
they  signed  *^Minor  Doodes"  and  "Mary  Doodes."  His  will  is 
dated  13  Dec,  1677,  twelve  years  later,  and  is  signed  by  "Main- 
dort  Doode."  Col,  E.  L.  Maury,  one  of  his  descendants,  has 
shown  me  copies  of  both  of  these  documents.  His  son  bore  the 
name  "Doodes  Minor,"  and  the  conjecture  of  some  is  that  he 
(the  son)  preferred  the  family  cognomen  Minor  and  adopted  it. 
A  conjecture  has  occurred  to  me,  that  the  worthy  old  sailor  was 
once  known  as  Meinheer,or  Mindort,  which  became  converted  into 
English  as  "Minor  Doodes,"  by  which  name  he  was  twice  natur- 
alized. It  was  not  very  long  before  the  family  had  a  "Minor 
Minor."  When  naturalized,  Doodes  Minor  meant  Doodes,  the 
Less,  or  Younger. 

Mr.  Minor  Meriwether's  Genealogy. 

This  gentleman,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  formerly  of  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  has  published  a  large -work  on  the  Minors  and  Meri- 
wethers.  He  is  descended  from  Minor  Doodes  and  glories  in  it, 
and  well  he  may,  for  Doodes  was  a  well-behaved,  energetic  sea- 
faring Hollander,  made  Virginia  his  home  and  amassed  here  a 
very  comfortable  estate.  As  at  present  advised,  I  do  not  claim 
from  him.  Whilst  I  have  not  learned  how  to  deny  facts,  I  have 
not  learned  how  to  make  or  force  them.  Mr.  Meriwether  men- 
tions a  Thomas  Minor,  but  said  Thomas  was  born  August,  1740, 
and  married  Mary  Dabney.  My  great-grandfather  Thomas 
Minor  married  Alice  Thomas  in  March,  1742.  But  Mr.  Meri- 
wether^s  genealogy  of  the  children  of  Doodes  Minor  is  not  re- 
garded as  complete.  He  does  not  mention  my  bnmch  of  the  fam- 
ily, whose  genealogy  is  as  follows : 


250  William  and  Mary  College  Quartekly. 

Ancestnj  of  Dr.  B.  B.  Minor. 
I.  Benjandn  Blake  Elinor,  eldest  child  of  Dr.  PTubbard  Taylor 
Minor  and  Jane  Blake,  bom  in  Tappahannock,  Va.,  21  October, 
1818.  Had  two  brothers,  John  Henry  and  Thomas,  and  two 
half-brothers,  Oscar  Crutchfield  and  Thomas  Jefferson,  all  of 
whom  died  in  infancy;  had  a  half-sister,  Mrs.  Jane  Blake  Hart, 
now  deceased.  Educated  in  private  sciiools,  Bristol  College, 
Pennsylvania,  University  of  Virginia  and  William  and  Mary. 
Married  in  Columbia, Tenn.,2G  May,  1842,  Virginia  Maury  Otey, 
born  5  Aug.,  1822,  eldest  child  of  Rt.  Rev.  James  H.  Otey,  D.  D., 
and  Eliza  D.  Pannill.  B.  B.  M.  and  wife  are  still  living  in  Rich- 
mond, Va.    They  have  had  eight  sons  and  three  daughters,  viz. : 

1.  Hervey  Otey,  bom  in  Richmond,  19 'Dec,  1843;  died  in 
Missouri  5  Jan.,  1892. 

2.  Hubbard  Taylor,  Jr.,  born  near  Spotsylvania  Court-house, 
7  July,  1845;  died  in  Wytheville,  Va.,  21  Aug.,  1874.  Married 
12  Dec,  1867,  Annie  Cazenove  Lamar,  of  Savannah,  Ga.,  who 
died  12  June,  1870.  They  left  two  cliildren,  (a)  Harriet  Caze- 
nove, born  13  Sept.,  1868;  married  George  Raymond  Frost  in 
Buffalo,  X.  Y.,  29  July,  1898;  (h)  Benjamin  Lamar,  bom  8 
Jan.,  1870. 

Hervey  and  Taylor  Minor  made  verv^  fine  records  in  the  Army 
and  iSTavy  of  the  Southern  Confederacy. 

3.  Bienjamin  Blake  Minor,  Jr.,  M.  D.,  born  in  Columbia,  Tenn., 
19  Oct.,  1846,  married  Mollie  Hutchinson,  of  Brenham,  Texas, 
14  June,  1899. 

4.  Leonidas  Cobbs,  born  at  Virginia  Female  Institute,  in 
Staunton,  Va.,  21  Jan.,  1848;  died  14  Xov.,  1859. 

5.  William  Pannill,  bom  in  Richmond  10  July,  1849,  married 
in  Leadville,  Col.,  2  Sept.,  1889,  Viola  Simms.  Have  one  child, 
Virginia  Simms,  born  3  Jan.,  1892.  Living  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
Utah.     ' 

6.  Viola  Virginia,  born  in  Richmond,  10  Feb.,  1851. 

7.  Paul  Hooker,  born  in  Richmond  27  May,  1852;  died  in 
Memphis,  Tenn.,  13  July,  1899. 

8.  Thomas  Aldridge,  born  in  Richmond  2  May,  1854;  died  in 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  2  Oct.,  1876. 

9.  Jane,  born  in  Richmond  5  Jan.,  1856. 

10.  Washington,  bom  in  Richmond  17  Dec,  1859;  died  in 
Rhode  Island  28  Oct.,  1898. 


;  Jameson  Family.  251 

! 

I  11.  Frances  Ellen  Jackson,  born  at  the  University  of  Mi■^^:ou^i 

I  2S  Aug.,  ISGl. 

I  B.  I).  Minor  has  been  lawyer^  editor,  teacher  and  professor. 

i  II.  Hubbard  Taylor  ^Minor,  j\[.  D.,  son  of  Col.  Thomas  Minor, 

I  of  Locust  Grove,  Spotsylvania  county,  Va.,  and  Elizabeth  Taylor, 

I  of  Midway,  Caroline  county,  Va.,  bom  1  Aug.,  1705,  married 

Jane  Blake,  of  Tappahannock,  2  Dec,  1817;  she  was  bom  in 
1802  and  died  29  Feb.,  1824.  He  married  (2)  :Nralvina  Cmtch- 
field,  of  Spotsylvania  county,  12  July,  182G.  Their  daughter, 
Jane  Blake,  born  7  Xov.,  ISoO,  married  1  June,  1848,  William 
Timothy  Hart,  of  Fredericksburg,  born  20  Oct.,  1822,  died  30 
March,  1885.  They  had  two  sons  and  three  daughters,  but  have 
lost  them  all.  ]\Irs.  Hart  died  in  xUlanta,  Ga.,  16  Feb.,  1900; 
interred  in  Fredericksburg,  Va,  Dr.  H.  T.  Minor's  other  children 
are  mentioned  above.  He  died  at  his  daughter's,  in  Fredericks- 
burg, 14  Oct.,  1875,  in  the  eighty-tirst  year  of  his  age. 

He  returned  from  Essex  to  Spotsylvania  in  1831,  and  became 
a  farmer  as  well  as  physician.  He  was  made  a  justice  of  the 
peace,  and  as  such  was  once  high  sheriff  of  the  county,  wdiich  he 
also  served,  after  the  retirement  of  his  brother-in-law,  Spea,ker 
Crutchtield,  in  the  Legislature  for  two  sessions;  but  neither  he 
nor  his  patient-s  would  consent  for  him  to  try  it  any  longer.  He 
practiced  medicine  for  fifty  years  and  then  retired.  He  sold  liis 
land  and  invested  in  Confederate  bonds;  but  retained  a  large 
and  valuable  body  of  slaves,  w^ho  were  liberated.  He  rendered  a 
short  military  service  during  the  war  of  1812,  for  which  he  re- 
ceived a  pension.  He  was  a  systematic  and  progressive  farmer 
and  was,  as  such,  of  good  service  to  the  county.  He  was  driven 
from  his  home  in  Fredericksburg  by  the  operations  of  the  war, 
and  his  residence  was  occupied  by  the  medical  department  of  the 
Union  army,  who  carried  off  some  of  his  professional  books;  but 
most  of  them  were  returned  after  the  war. 
{To  he  Co7itinued.) 


JAMESO:^  FAMILY. 

{Continued  from  Vol.  III.,  190,  and  V.,  90.) 
It  is  now  time  to  conclude  the  article  on  this  family  begun 
some  time  back.    It  has  been  seen  that  the  first  of  the  name  from 
whom  a  connected  record  is  presen-ed  was  James  Jameson,  of 


252  William  and  Maet  College  Quarterly. 

Essex  county,  Va.,  who  died  in  173G.  His  wife  was  Margaret, 
and  he  had  issue  three  sons:  1  Thomas,  2  James,  3  David.  Each 
of  these  have  received  some  notice. 

Now,  while  it  is  not  the  intention  to  trace  all  the  lines,  some 
information  may  he  added  for  the  benefit  of  some  future  genealo- 
gist. John  Jameson  (p.  200,  Vol.  IIL),  the  son  of  1  Thomas, 
was  a  lieutenant  colonel  in  the  Eevolution,  and  married  twice. 
(1)  Eachel  Bessira,  of  New  York,  by  whom  he  had  two  children, 
who  died  in  infancy.  He  married  (2)  Elizabeth  Davenport, 
daughter  of  Col.  Burkett  Davenport,  by  whom  he  had  Mr. 
Jameson,  father  of  Philip  L.  Jameson,  living  in  Culpeper  county, 
Va.,  in  1893.  It  has  been  seen  that  Hon.  David  Jameson,  the 
third  son  of  James  Jameson,  left  one-half  of  his  property  to  the 
above  Col.  John  Jameson  and  the  other  half  to  his  two  nephews, 
David  Jameson,  of  Culpeper  (son  of  his  brother  Thomas),  mem- 
ber of  the  House  of  Delegates  from  Culpeper  in  1787,  and  a 
major  on  the  State  line  in  1778,  and  to  David  Jameson,  Jr.,  of 
Caroline,  son  of  his  brother  James. 

Thomas  Jameson,  Jr.  (son  of  James  Jameson,  second  son  of 
James  Jameson),  was  bom  July  17,  1745,  and  died  in  January, 
1770.  He  married  Mary  Eobinson  (baptized  Feb.  5,  1748-'9; 
died  1771),  daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas  Eobinson,*  master  of  the 
Grammar  School  in  William  and  Mary  College,  by  Edith  Tyler 
(aunt  of  Gov.  John  Tyler)  his  wife.  They  had  issue  (1)  Doro- 
thea Graham  (Dolly),  (2)  Thomas  Eobinson.     Of  these  Dolly 

*  Thomas  Robinson  was  probably  the  Thomas  Robinson,  son  of  John 
of  Stuble  Hall,  Lancashire,  pub.,  who  matriculated  at  Queen's  College, 
Oxford,  June  30,  1738,  age  twenty.  He  qualified  as  master  of  the  Gram- 
mar School  at  William  and  Mary  College  January  25,  1742,  and  died 
before  17C5.  He  married  Edith  Tyler  about  1755,  and  had  issue  (1) 
John,  baptized  October  30,  1746;  (2)  Mary,  baptized  February  5,  1748-'9, 
who  married  Thomas  Jameson,  Jr.,  as  above.  Mrs.  Robinson's  sister, 
Mary  Tyler,  married  Rev.  William  Preston,  professor  of  Moral  Philoso- 
phy at  William  and  Mary.  After  Mr.  Preston  returned  to  England,  Mrs. 
Edith  (Tyler)  Robinson  joined  him  there  at  Warcop,  in  Yorkshire,  of 
which  place  he  was  rector.  I  have  the  fragment  of  a  letter  from  ]Mrs. 
Robinson  addressed  to  Mr.  Benjamin  Powell,  of  Williamsburg.  It  men- 
tions "her  cousins  John  Tyler  and  his  wife,"  "her  dear  Dolly  and  Molly.'' 
Says  she  does  not  see  "a  person  once  in  twenty  years  going  to  Virginia;'* 
that  it  would  cost  six  shillings  to  have  a  stamp  on  a  power  of  attorney 
sent  over,  etc.  The  present  rector  of  Warcop  is  the  Rev.  Charles  Mayes 
Preston,  a  descendant  of  Mary  Tyler,  of  Virginia.  (See  Quarterly,  II., 
126,  IIL,  139.) 


Jameson  Family.  253 

Graham  Jameson  was  born  in  Yorktown  July  27,  1768,  and  died 
April  18,  1848,  in  Danville,  Ky.  She  married  Samuel  Ayres 
(bom  17G6  in  Essex  county,  and  died  Sept.  6,  1821).  They  were 
married  on  Oct.  3,  1792,  and  moved  to  Lexington,  Ky.,  where 
they  lived  till  May,  1823,  and  then  moved  to  Danville,  Ky.  Issue 
of  Samuel  Ayres  and  Dolly  Graham  his  wife:  (1)  Rebecca,  bom 
:N'ov.  10,  1793,  died  July  18,  1794-'o;  (2)  David  Jameson,  bom 
January  20,  1795,  m.arried  (i.)  his  cousin  Maria  Garnett,  (ii.) 
Elizabeth  Adams,  of  Boston,  Mass;  (3)  Mahala,  bom  Sept.  22, 
1796;  (4)  Martha  Thorp,  born  May  14,  1799;  (5)  Mary,  bom 
December  14,  1801,  died  1803;  (6)  Millinda,  bom  December  17, 
1803,  married  Dr.  Edward  Hollingsworth,  of  Virginia;  (7) 
Thomas  Robinson  Jameson,  bom  jSTov.  28,  1805,  married  Miss 
Smith,  a  Xorthern  lady,  and  have  David  Jameson  A}Te3,  of 
Keokiik,  Iowa,  and  Etta  x\yres;  (8)  William  Burton,  bom  12 
January,  1808,  died  1808 ;  (9)  Samuel  Ayres,  Jr.,  bom  10  June, 
1809,  father  of  William  Ayres,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  and  other  chil- 
dren; (10)  Dolly  Aphia  Jameson  Ayres,  bom  Aug.  23,  1811, 
married  Dr.  John  Hollingsworth,  of  Virginia,  a  cousin  of  Dr. 
Edward  Hollingsworth.  Their  two  children  are  Mrs.  ^Martha  A. 
Bowen,  of  Lookout  Mountain,  Tenn.,  and  Mrs.  Yeiser. 

The  following  names  of  Thomas  Robinson  Jameson's  children 
appear  in  Orange  county,  Va.,  records :  1  Caty,  2  Dolly,  3  Ma- 
hala, 4  Sukey. 

I  owe  much  of  this  information  to  Mr.  James  M.  Bourne,  of 
Owenton,  Owen  county,  Ky.,  who  compiled  it  from  family  Bibles 
and  county  records.  He  is  a  great-grandson  of  Thomas  Jameson 
and  Judith  Ball  Hacklev..  Mr.  Jameson  emisrrated  from  Cul- 
peper  county,  Va.,  to  what  is  now  Montgomery  county,  Ky.,  in 
1782,  and  died  Aug.  14,  1827,  aged  eighty-four  years. 

Under  date  of  March  5,  1892,  Mr.  David  J.  Ayres,  of  Keokuk, 
Iowa,  writes : 

I  have  an  Episcopal  prayer-book,  given  me  years  ago  by  my  uncle 
David  Jameson  Ayres,  and  in  this  book  is  written  the  name  "Mary  Jame- 
son, 176S."  The  book  was  published  in  Oxford,  England,  in  1767.  We' 
also  have  a  book  in  our  family  in  which  is  written  as  follows :  "Maria 
Garnett,  Liberty  Hall,  Essex  county,  Va.  Presented  to  Maria  Garnett 
by  her  brother  John  J.  Garnett,  2d  June,  1811.''  In  another  letter  dated 
February  IC,  1892,  "You  will  see  the  enclosed  letter  addressed  to  'Mrs. 
Robinson.'  "  We  send  you  an  exact  copy  of  that  letter,  but  there  was 
no  postmark  on  it.     We  have  a  family  cross  of  hair  and  the  name  of 


254  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

ThoiJias  Holiin.son  and  Edith  T.  Kobinson  are  together.  FartJicr  down  is 
the  name  Mary  Kobinson  Jameson,  lower  down  Mary  Jameson  Ayres. 
Books  mentioned  are  as  fo)k)ws:  "An  help  and  guide  to  Christian  fami- 
lies," printed  in  London  1744.  "Imprimatur,"  July  9,  1093.  Another, 
"The  Knowledge  and  Practice  of  Christianity,  printed  1749."  "Philo- 
theus,"  or  the  Character  of  a  Reverend  Learned  and  Pious  Divine,  Lon- 
don, 17C4.    In  all  of  these  is  written  Dolly  Graham  Jameson,  1787. 

There  are  several  letters  (179.3)  extant  of  David  Jameson,  Jr., 
of  Caroline,  speaking  of  his  uncle  David  Jameson^s  estate,  of  his 
intention  to  emigrate  to  Kentucky,  of  his  daughter  "Dolly 
Ayres,"  etc.  To  Mr.  Samuel  Ayres,  then  in  Kentucky,  he  wrote, 
"Sally  has  sent  out,  in  the  care  of  Garnett,  some  dr}'ed  May 
cherries  and  a  few  damesons.  Apphia  has  sent  Dolly  flower 
seeds  and  roots,  and  I  have  sent  a  few  scions  of  good  fruit,  and 
some  shrubs,  wch  be  sure  to  have  set  out  as  I  may  get  from  them 
when  I  come  out.  I  shall  conclude  with  desiring  you  to  give 
my  love  to  my  dear  niece  and  be  assured  I  am,  dr.  Samuel,  your 
affectionate  friend,  David  Jameson,  Jun.^' 

The  following  letter  to  Mrs.  Edith  (Tyler)  Eobinson  in  TTar- 
cop,  Yorkshire,  who  doubtless  never  returned  to  America,  de- 
serves to  be  inserted  entire: 

ViEGiNiA,  Caroline,  May  23,  1787. 
My  Deab  axd  Hoxored  Gkaxdmamma  : 

Your  kind  and  agreeble  letter,  dated  May  23,  1786,  I  did  not  get  until 
27  April,  1787,  the  receipt  of  it  you  may  be  assured  gave  me  great  satis- 
faction, though  on  reading  it,  was  much  affected  to  hear  you  were  in 
so  low  a  state  of  health.  I  hope  with  the  blessing  of  God  before  this  date 
you  have  received  your  health,  and  that  this  letter  will  find  you  enjoying 
a  perfect  state  of  health.  The  trunk  and  contents  came  safe  to  me,  and 
without  being  damaged,  for  which  I  do  most  sincerely  return  you  many 
thanks.  Be  assured,  my  dear  Grandmamma,  I  will  take  the  greatest 
care  imai:inable  of  the  clothes  and  other  things  you  sent  me  for  your 
sake  and  my  dear  mamma's.  You  have  put  yourself  to  a  great  deal  of 
trouble  on  my  account,  and  I  am  afraid  the  distance  we  are  apart  will 
prevent  my  ever  having  it  in  my  power  to  make  you  amends.  I  shall 
certainly  wear  the  apron,  ruffles  and  handkerchiefs  with  as  much  pleas- 
ure for  your  sake  as  you  worked  them  for  mine. 

The  stays  fit  me  very  well  as  also  the  green  silk  gown  by  letting  the 
sleeves  out  a  little.  The  piece  of  silk  I  do  not  think  I  shall  ever  part 
with,  that  particularly  for  your  sake  I  shall  keep.  I  will  not  part  with 
any  of  the  trinkets  that  were  in  the  cabinet  on  any  account  whatever.  I 
have  delivered  to  my  brother  the  things  you  sent  him,  except  the  tea- 
spoons, and  them  I  will  deliver  when  he  wants  them.  I  have  the  locket 
you  sent  me  some  years  ago  with  some  of  my  dear  papa's  and  mamma's 


Colliers  of  York  County.  255 

hair  in  it,  which  I  intend  to  keep  as  lonj^  as  I  live.  The  stone  ring  you 
sent  me  I  do  prize  above  all  things,  and  shall  forever  keep  it  a:^  a  me- 
morial of  you  and  my  dear  papa  and  mamma.  I  hope,  my  dear  madam, 
you  will  not  think  me  so  ungrateful  as  not  to  thank  you  for  an  empty 
purse;  be  assured  I  am  not  of  that  disposition,  nor  would  not  be  for  the 
world.  I  am  very  much  obliged  to  you  for  the  books;  they  are  very 
agreeable  companions  to  me,  as  I  am  fond  of  reading,  and  shall  obey 
your  last  commands  to  read  them  with  the  greatest  attention. 

You  accuse  me  in  not  writing  to  you,  which  I  do  confess  was  a  neglect 
in  me,  though  not  for  want  of  affection,  but  for  the  want  of  not  know- 
ing in  what  manner  I  could  possibly  get  a  letter  to  you,  not  knowing  in 
what  manner  I  could  possibly  get  a  letter  to  you,  not  knowing  where  to 
direct  one. 

My  dear  grandmamma,  I  must  now  conclude  with  informing  you  I 
enjoy  a  perfect  state  of  health,  and  may  God  Almighty  give  you  grace 
while  I  live  you  shall  not  want  the  prayers  of  your  sincere,  aU'ectionate 
and  dutiful  granddaughter.  Dolly  GRAHAii  Jameson. 

The  original,  of  which  the  above  is  a  copy,  is  in  the  hands  of  David 
Jameson  Ayres,  509  and  511  Main  Street,  Keokuk,  Iowa. 

The  back  of  the  letter  was  addressed  to  "Mrs.  Pcobinson."  only. 

[Mr.  Ayres  is  a  grandson  of  the  writer.  Mr.  D.  J.  Ayres  is  a  Demo- 
cratic delegate  to  the  Chicago  convention,  and  would  be  glad  to  hear 
from  you.    ]Mrs.  Bowen  also  would  be  glad  to  hear  from  you." 

Very  truly  yours,  James  M.  Bourne.] 

June  4,  1892. 


COLLIEES  OF  YOEK  COUNTY. 

{Continued  from  page  202.) 

*  Page  202:  "Cousin  Isaac  Collier."  Cousin  was  a  term  generally 
used  for  nepheiv.  It  is  probable  that  Isaac  Collier,  sr.,  married  the  sister 
of  Edward  and  John  Lockey. 

*  Page  203 :  "Isaac  Collier,"  He  was  doubtless  eldest  son  of  Charles 
Collier,  whose  will  was  proved  August  20,  1722. 

Erratum:  In  thirteenth  line  from  bottom  of  page,  for  "Charles  names 
in  his  will,"  etc.,  read,  "Thomas  Collier  names  in  his  will  proved  in 
1704,"  etc. 

Charles  Collier  (will  proved  in  1722)  had  issue  three  sons 
and  one  daughter:  (1)  Isaac,  not  mentioned  in  the  will,  but 
eldest  son,  since  none  of  the  brothers  of  Charles  Collier  left  any 
sons.  In  172 G  a  deed  from  Henry  Cary  (son  of  Henry  Cury  and 
Judith  Lockey  his  wife)  and  Anne  his  wife,  and  Lockey  ]\[ihill 
(son  of  John  ^lihill  and  Mary  Lockey),  and  Sarah  his  wife, 
to  Cole  Digges  for  200  acres  in  York  county,  recites  that  this  is 


256  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

the  land  whereof  Edward  Lockey  died  seised,  and  wliich  the  said 
Gary  and  Miliill  lately  recovered  by  judgment  of  the  general 
court  as  heirs  of  said  Edward  Lockey,  deceased,  from  Isaac  Col- 
lier and  Foliott  PovN'er  (son  of  John  Power  and  Mary  his  wife, 
widow  of  JoimMihill?).  (2)  Thomas,  (3)  Charles,  (4)  Eliza- 
beth. 

Of  these  Isaac  Collier,  first  named,  married  Ann  Vines,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  Vines,  of  York  county,  whose  w^ill,  proved  August 
15,  1737,  nam^es  daughter  Anne  Collier  and  her  husband  Isaac 
Collier  and  their  children,  (1)  Thomas,  who  is  said  to  have  gone 
in  1749  with  Lawrence  Washington  against  Porto  Bello,  and  was 
afterwards  second  lieutenant  in  the  Second  Virginia  Regiment. 
(Eeitmans  Register.)  (2)  Judith,  (3)  Vines,  (4)  Charles,  who 
is  said  to  have  accompanied  his  brother  to  Porto  Bello,  and  was 
a  captain  in  the  continental  line.  (Heitman.) 

Vines  Collier  removed  to  Brunswick  and  was  ensign  in  1758 
during  the  French  and  Indian  war.  {Ilening's  Stats.,  VIL,  211.) 

Judith  Collier,  his  sister,  married  James  Hicks,  of  Brunswick, 
and  was  mother  of  Anne  Vines  Hicks  Walker,  who  was  living  at 
an  advanced  age  in  1860.  She  had  also  a  son.  Vines  Collier 
Hicks,  and  in  1881  a  nephew  of  the  latter.  Vines  Hicks  Collier, 
lived  near  Hickory  Flat,  in  Chambers  county,  Ala.  {Letter  of 
Prof.  Robert  A.  Hardaivoy,  Dec.  25,  1897.) 

From  this  family  came  Lockey  Collier,  of  Elizabeth  City 
county,  student  at  William  and  Mary  in  1756,  and  ward  of  Col. 
John  Tabb,  of  Elizabeth  City  county.  He  had  by  Martha  his 
wife  (1)  Diana,  bom  xVpril  14,  1768,  and  by  Margaret  his  wife 
Mary,  bom  June  8,  1775.  (Pocosin  Parish  Register.) 

There  were  other  families  of  Colliers  in  Virginia.  William 
Collier,  "citizen  and  weaver,  of  London,"  came  to  York  county 
in  1670,  and  finally  settled  in  N"ew  Kent.  In  1675  he  is  named 
as  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  county.  From  him  descended  a 
numerous  progeny  in  King  William,  ISTew  Kent  and  Charles 
City.  The  name  Collier  appears  as  a  Christian  name  in  many  of 
the  local  families,  Minge,  Harrison,  etc. 

In  Surry  county  John  Collier  settled  before  1668,  and  left 
numerous  descendants. 

Note  on  Viircs  and  Hill  FA^nLiEs. — The  jury  returned  a  special 
verdict  in  a  suit  in  York  county  September  19,  1726,  which  shows  that 
Thomas  Vines  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Vines  and  Mary  his  wife,  that  she. 


Hope  Family  of  Virginia.  257 

^lary,  was  daughter  of  Thomas  Hill  and  P^leanor  Charles.  By  a  deed 
dated  21  March,  1G93,  Thomas  Hill  said  that  he  was  son  of  John  Hill, 
Yv'ho  made  his  will  December  9,  1G70,  and  that  John  Hill  was  son  of 
Thomas  Hill.  The  deed  was  to  Samuel  Eaton  for  170  acres,  a  part  of 
600  acres  called  "Essex  Lodge,"  first  taken  up  by  Capt.  William  Brocas, 
a  member  of  the  Virginia  Council  in  1635,  and  sold  by  him  to  Thomas 
Hill.  In  1658,  it  is  stated  that  Thomas  Bushrod  purchased  goods  of  Mr. 
Thomas  Barber  for  Mrs.  Mary  Hill,  of  ''Essex  Lodge."  In  1661,  there  is 
a  deposition  that  Thomas  Bushrod  married  the  relict  and  executrix  of 
Thomas  Hill.  In  1657  Thomas  Hill  patented  500  acres  on  Potomac  due 
him  for  emigrants,  viz.,  Capt.  Thomas  Hill,  three  times,  Mary  Bushrod 
twice,  John  Hill,  George  Hill,  Thomas  Hill,  Mary  Hill  and  Francis  Hill. 
From  this  I  infer  that  Capt.  Thomas  Hill  was  the  first  husband  of  Mrs. 
Bushrod,  and  the  other  Hills  their  children,  the  son  Thomas  being  the 
patentee. 

Abraham  Piersey,  of  the  Council  of  Virginia,  who  married  Frances, 
the  widow  of  Capt.  Nathaniel  West,  brother  of  Lord  Delaware,  left  "the 
best  estate  that  ever  was  yet  known  in  Virginia"  to  his  daughter  Mary 
who  married  Capt.  Thomas  Hill.  {Sainshury  MSS.,  163S-'9.)  Capt.  Sam- 
uel Mathews  married  the  widow  Frances  about  the  same  time.  {NeilVs 
Virginia  Caroloruni.)  I  am  not  certain  that  this  Capt.  Thomas  Hill  was 
he  of  "Essex  Lodge."  Thomas  Bushrod  lived  during  his  life  at  "Essex 
Lodge."  His  brother,  Richard^  Bushrod,  was  ancestor  of  Gen.  Wash- 
ington's nephew,  Judge  Bushrod  Washington.  During  the  siege  of  York- 
town  in  1781,  "Essex  Lodge,"  since  called  "Washington's  Lodge,"  was 
the  headquarters  of  Gen.  Washington. 


HOPE  FAMILY  OF  YIEGIMA.* 

George  Hope,  of  Hampton,  Ya.,  was  born  in  Cumberland, 
England,  March  28,  1749.  He  came  to  Virginia  from  ^Tiite 
Haven  about  1771,  and  married  Eebecca  Meredith  Ballard,  sister 
to  Capt.  Joseph  Meredith,  who  served  in  the  Eevolution  as  cap- 
tain of  the  privateer  La  Fayette. 

George  Hope  superintended  the  construction  of  gunboats  for 
the  Virginia  navy  during  the  Eevolutionary  war  at  "Warwick  on 
the  James,  ^^thus  assisting  in  establishing  the  independence  of 
our  country."  , 

George  Hope  married  Eebecca  (Meredith)  Ballard  March  5, 
1774.  Children:  1  George,  bom  June  5,  1775:  2  Sarah,  born 
July  25,  1777;  3  Meredith,  bom  October  5,  1780;  4  Isaac,  bom 

*  Communicated  by  Miss  Mamie  Hope  West,  quoting  Family  Bibles, 
etc. 


258  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

April  5,  1782;  5  Jolm,  born  January  25,  178C;  G  Isaac,  born 
August  3,  1787;  7  Joseph,  born  ]\[arch  31,  1789;  8  Thomas,  bom 
]S^vembcT  27,  1790;  9  William,  born  November  30,  1792;  10 
Wilton,  born  January  1,  1795. 

(1)  George^  (George^)  married,  first,  Ann  Armistead,  dau. 
of  Bailey  Armistead.  Children:  1  Sarah,  bom  Sept.  23,  1801; 
2  George.  Tie  married,  secondly.  Patsy  Booker.  Children:  1 
Martha,  died  unmarried ;  2  Richard;  3  William,  now  living,  un- 
married, in  Conf.  Sol.  Home  at  Richmond,  Va. 

(2)  Sarah^  (George^)  married Wills. 

(5)  John-  (George^),  the  grandfather  of  Ilev.  Herbert  Mere- 
dith Hope,  of  Petersburg,  Dr.  Frank  S.  Hope  and  William  Hope, 
of  Portsmouth,  Ya. 

(9)  William-  (George^)  married  ^laria  Tabb  Smith,  of  York- 
town,  Ya.,  daughter  of  John  Tabb  Smith.  Children:  1  Janet 
Meredith  Hope,  who  married  Thomas  Peek  and  had  William 
Hope  Peek,  surgeon  C.  S.  'N.,  George,  late  judge,  Maria  Smith 
Peek,  Charles  Smith  Peek  and  Dr.  Jesse  Hope  Peek;  2  George 
William  Hope;  3  Dr.  Jesse  P.  Hope,  surgeon  C.  S.  A. ;  4  Laura 
E.  A.  Hope. 

(10)  Wilton-  (George^)  married  Miss  Jane  Barron,  dau.  of 
Com,  Barron.  Capt.  James  Barron  Hope,  of  !N"orfolk,  Ya.,  the 
distiiiguished  poet,  was  their  only  cliild. 

(1)  Sarah^  (George-,  George^)  married  Eev.  Yemen  Eskridge, 
H.  S.  'N.,  October  30,  1832.  Children:  1  George  Burdett,  bom 
August  8,  1834;  2  Ann  McLin,  bom  December  2,  1835;  3  Rich- 
ard Washington,  born  July  28,  1838;  4  Sarah  Yemon,  bom 
January  13,  1841. 

(4)  Sarah**  Yemon  (Sarah^,  George-,  George"^)  married  Wil- 
liam Henry  White,  of  Portsmouth,  Ya.  Children:  1  Sarah  Esk- 
ridge, born  March  4,  1800;  2  Mary  Henry  Hope,  bom  May  28, 
1861. 

(2)  Mary^  (Sarah*,  Sarah^,  George-,  George^)  married  Henry 
Litchfield  West,  of  Washing-ton,  D.  C,  July  25,  1882.  Children : 
1  Marion  Litchfield,  born  June  14,  1883;  2  Yernon  Eskridge, 
bom  July  24,  1886;  3  Mary  Athow,  born  September  11,  1889. 


Galt  Family  of  Williamsburg.  259 

GALT  FAMILY  OF  WILLIAMSBUKG.* 

Dr.  John  M.  Gait  was  the  son  of  Samuel  Gait,  who  was  the  son 
of  one  of  the  two  Covenanters,  John  and  William  Gait,  who  are 
said  to  have  been  banished  from  Scotland  in  i(>84  on  account  of 
their  religion.  The  father  of  Samuel  Gait  was  in  the  siege  of 
"Londonderry.  Samuel  Gait  married  Lucy  Clealand,  widow  of 
James  Clealand  and  daughter  of  James  Servant,  son  of  Bertrand 
Servant  (or  Servienti),  a  French  Huguenot,  who  came  to  Vir- 
ginia in  1059,  and  who  later  was  prominent  in  the  colony — 
member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  from  Elizabeth  City,  etc. 

Dr.  John  M.  Gait  was  born  in  1741,  and  died  1808.  He  was 
educated  at  William  and  ^lary  College,  and  received  his  medical 
education  in  Edinburgh  and  Paris  in*  17G5-'6-'T.  He  was  for  a 
time  surgeon  in  the  Hudson  Bay  Co.,  but  gave  up  the  position 
and  returned  to  Williamsburg  and  began  there  the  practice  of 
medicine.  He  married  Miss  Judith  Craig,  daughter  of  'Mr.  Alex- 
ander Craig  and  Marie  Maupin  his  wife.  Dr.  John  'M.  Gait 
was  attending  physician  to  the  Hospital  for  the  Insane  at  Wil- 
liamsburg (the  first  hospital  exclusively  for  the  insane  in  the 
United  States).  He  was  a  vestrsmian  of  Brut  on  Parish  Church, 
and  one  of  the  Board  of  Directors  for  William  and  ^Eary  College. 
In  1774  he  w^as  one  of  the  Committee  of  Williamsburg.  He  was  a 
prominent  surgeon  during  the  war,  and  was  in  the  siege  of  York- 
^own;  was  senior  field  surgeon  of  Virginia  troops  at  the  end  of 
the  war,  and  had  charge  of  the  sick  soldiers  in  the  hospitals  in 
and  around  Williamsburg  after  the  war.  He  was  a  philanthro- 
pist, and  compounded  and  gave  to  the  patients  of  the  insane  hos- 
pital all  medicines  used  by  them  after  he  was  appointed  their 
visiting  physician.  He  had  a  very  large  practice  in  Williams- 
burg and  the  adjacent  counties.  Later  on  is  a  list  of  some 
of  the  patients  visited  by  him  in  the  latter  part  of  December, 
1782. 

Dr.  Alexander  D.  Gait,  son  of  Dr.  John  M.  Gait,  was  born 
1771  in  Williamsburg,  was  educated  at  William  and  Man^  Col- 
lege and  at  Oxford,  England.  He  was  also  private  pupil  of  Sir 
Astley  Cooper  and  attended  the  London  hospitals  1792-'3-"4.  He 
was  associated  with  his  father  and  succeeded  him  as  physician 
to  the  Hospital  for  the  Insane.     His  private  practice  w.as  even 

*  Communicated  by  Miss  Mary  M.  Gait. 


I 


260  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

larger  than  his  fathers.  He  too  was  a  philanthropist,  and  the 
poor  thon^rht  he  was  paid  hy  the  State  to  attend  them.  He  was 
also  one  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  William  and  Mar}^  College, 
and  was  a  distinguished  surgeon  in  the  war  of  1S12.  He  mar- 
ried his  cousin,  I\Iiss  Mary  D.  Gait. 

Dr.  John  M.  Gait,  the  second,  was  the  son  of  Dr.  Alexander 
D.  Gait  and  succeeded  his  father  as  "superintendent"  of  the  Asy- 
lum for  the  Insane.  The  Board  of  Directors  waited  a  numher 
of  months  until  he  had  graduated  to  offer  him  the  position,  so 
well  was  his  ability  recognized  and  appreciated.  He  was  edu- 
cated at  AYilKam  and  Mary  College  and  at  the  Medical  Schools 
of  Philadelphia.  He  too,  like  his  father  and  grandfather,  was  a 
philanthropist.  He  refused  many  times  to  allo^  his  salary  to  be 
raised;  fed  many  of  the  patients  from  Ms  table,  etc.  He  was  a 
great  scholar — spoke  and  understood  more  than  twenty  lan- 
guages. He  searched  literature  for  anything  bearing  on  the  in- 
sane, and  was  the  first  to  recognize  the  value  of  employment  in 
their  treatment.  He  loved  and  pitied  the  insane,  and  when  in 
May,  1862,  the  Union  troops  took  possession  of  the  town  and  hos- 
pital and  he  was  not  allowed  to  enter  the  hospital,  his  anxiety 
about  the  patients  was  so  great  that  he  could  neither  eat  nor 
sleep  for  several  days  and  nights,  and  it  is  thought  that  this 
caused  his  death.  The  Hospital  for  the  Insane  was  in  the  care  of 
the  Gaits  for  nearly  a  hundred  years. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Medico-Psychological 
Association,  which  met  in  Baltimore  in  1897,  the  President,  Dr. 
T.  0.  Powell,  said  of  Dr.  John  M.  Gait,  in  his  address,  ''Such  a 
calamity  was  his  death  that  we  yet  feel  his  loss.  In  the  record  of 
the  Gaits  lasting  nearly  a  hundred  years  we  find  the  only  parallel 
in  America  to  the  justly-famous  Tukes  of  England." 

Mr.  James.  Gait,  oldest  brother  of  Dr.  J.  M.  Gait,  Sr.,  was  asked 
by  the  Court  of  Directors  to  take  charge  of  the  Hospital  for  the 
Insane.  He  agreed  to  do  so  and  took  charge  of  the  institution 
on  September  14,  1773,  the  day  it  was  pronounced  finished.  He 
had  had  the  advantages  of  education  and  travel  and  was  noted 
for  his  integrity  and  later  for  his  patriotism.  He  was  lieutenant 
in  the  Williamsl>urg  militia  during  the  war.  The  hospital  was 
suspended  for  lack  of  funds  towards  the  latter  part  of  the  war. 
When  it  was  reopened  after  the  war,  Mr.  James  Gait  was  again 
appointed  keeper  and  superintendent,  which  position  he  held 


Galt  Family  of  Williamsburg.  261 

until  his  death  in  1800.  He  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  Mr.  Wil- 
liam T.  Gait,  who  held  the  position  for  twenty-six  years — to  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  was  mayor  of  Williamsburg  when  La- 
fayette made  liis  second  visit  to  America,  and  received  him  offi- 
cially when  be  visited  the  old  city. 

Patrick  Gait  was  appointed  surgeon  to  the  Xinth  Virginia 
Eegiinent  some  time  in  the  year  1776,  in  which  capacity  he 
served  until  he  died  in  the  State  of  New  Jersey,  at  Morris  Town, 
where  his  regiment  was  stationed,  13th  Feb.,  1777.  He  was  a 
younger  brother  of  Dr.  J.  M.  Gait,  Sr. 

Names  of  Persons  Visited  by  Dr.  John  M.  Galt. 
(From  his  account  hooTc.) 

Williamsburg,  Dec.  17,  1782.— Mr.  Samuel  Crawley,  Mr.  S. 
Slater,  Major  Southall,  Mr.  Wm.  Keene,  Eev.  Wm.  Bland,  Mr. 
Pride,  Mr.  James  Taylor,  Jr.,  Mr.  Hugh  Nelson,  Wm.  Nelson, 
Esq.,  Mr.  Samuel  Crawley,  Mr.  Eichard  Bray,  Dr.  Wm.  Pasteur. 

December  19^/i.— Capt.  F.  Bright,  Mrs.  Tazewell,  Mr.  Wm. 
Keene,  The  College,  Mr.  Wm.  Edloe,  Dr.  Pasteur,  Lee's  Estate, 
Mr.  George  Eeid,  Mr.  Hunny,  Mr.  Phill.  Moody,  Mr.  Giles,  ]\Ir. 
Wm.  Nelson,  ^Ir.  Samuel  Crawley,  Mr.  George  Wythe,  Eev.  Wil- 
liam Bland,  Mr.  Hunny,  Addison  Lewis,  Esq. 

December  20,  1782.— Mr.  Thomas  Gale  at  King's  Mill,  Aug. 
Moore,  Esq.,  Hugh  Nelson,  Esq.,  Mr.  Crawley,  Col.  Innis,  Mr. 
Wm.  Eowsay,  Mr.  H.  Burt,  Mr.  Stith  Hardyman,  Thomas  Gale, 
Mr.  Phil.  Moody,  Bruton  Parish  (for  Molly  Hopkins),  Mr.  Val- 
entine (negroes  at  Green  Spring),  Mr.  Penny. 

Williamsburg,  Dec.  22,  1782. — Mr.  James  Anderson,  Mr. 
Plume,  Samuel  Beall,  Mr.  Giles,  Colonel  Nat.  Burwell,  Mr.  John 
Dickinson,  Mr.  Henry  Nicholson,  Mr.  Samuel  Crawley,  Mr. 
Plume, 'i\Ir.  Jo.  Prentis,  Mrs.  Mary  Byrd,  Mr.  Eiddle,  Colonel 
Diggs,"  Mr.  Eichard  Bray. 

Williamsburg,  Dec.  24,  1782.- Mr.  Wm.  Moody,  Thomas  Gale, 
Mr.  Valentine  (your  negroes  at  Green  Spring),  Capt.  Crawley. 

25^/t.— Mr.  Jo.  Prentis,  Mr.  Eiddle. 

26th. — Mr.  Deane,  Mr.  James  Anderson,  (Eountree  dressed 
apprentice's  leg),  Mr.  Pitt,  Major  Southall,  Paradise's  Estate. 

27th. — Colonel  Innis,  Mr.  Pitt  (visit  wife),  Mr.  George  Eeid, 
Mr.  Wm.  Allen,  Paradise's  Estate,  Mr.  Henry'  Nicholson  (wife). 


2G2  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

December  27,  1782.~Capt.  Robinson,  l^lv.  Pitt,  Mrs.  Tazewell, 
Paradise's  Estate,  Mr.  \Vm.  Wilivinson,  Samuel  Beall,  E.sq.,  Capt. 
Kilby,  Capt.  Crawley  (wife),  Mr.  Deane,  Mr.  Phil.  Moody,  Col. 
Digges. 

December  2dth. — Mr.  Pitt,  Ur.  Thomas  Cowles,  Mr.  Giles, 
Capt.  Robinson,  Mr.  Reynolds,  Esq. 

30th. — ]\Irs.  Fiunie,  Capt.  Massonburg,  Mr.  James  Craig,  Jo. 
Prentis,  Esq.,  Mr.  Honey,  Mr.  Wm.  Cole,  Mr.  Wm.  Ma] lory,  Mr. 
Honey. 

ALEXA:NrDER  FAMITA". 

This  family  claims  descent  from  Sir  William  Alexander,  Earl 
of  Stirlins:,  but  the  claim  has  not  vet  been  substantiated.  The 
ancestor  of  the  family  in  Virginia  was  1  Joiin^  Alexaxder, 
who  in  company  with  Littleton  Scarburgh  and  Tabitha  Smart, 
children  of  Col.  Edmund  Scarburgh,  obtained  a  grant  for  1,500 
acres  in  Northampton  county  on  March  24,  1659.  In  1664  John 
Alexander  obtained  a  grant  for  1,450  acres  formerly  granted  to 
John  Bagnall  and  John  Walter,  and  by  them  assigned  to  Edmund 
Scarburgh  13  Aug.,  1656,  and  by  Scarburgh  assigned  to  John 
Alexander  March  10,  1G59.  In  1664,  as  John  Alexander,  Sr.,  he 
patented  land  in  Westmoreland  on  Attopin  Creek.  He  had 
issue  2  John^  Alexander,  Jr.,  mentioned  in  a  patent  March  3, 
1664,  for  land  in  Westmoreland  to  "Robert  Alexander,  John 
Alexander,  Jr.,  and  Christopher"  (Lunn).  He  appears  to  have 
died  without  issue.  3  Robert^,  of  whom  hereafter;  4  Philip^,  of 
whom  hereafter.  (Birch  v.  Alexander^  Washington's  Reports.) 

It  would  seem  as  if  John  Alexander  was  a  connection  of  Col. 
Scarburgh.  The  following  letter  to  John  Alexander,  Jr.,  is  re- 
corded in  Accomac  court : 

Letter  to  Mr.  John  Alexander. 

Exon  this  18^^  of  September,  1663. 
M*"  John  Alexander  and  Loueing  ifreind  our  kind  Respects  to 
you  and  yo'"^  wee  reed  %1  M^  Samuel  Stakes  y^  Tobb.  you  sent  vs 
in  y*  shipp  Samuell,  as  also  twenty  hhds  q^  ^V  Thomas  Sheppard, 
though  far  worse  than  y®  former,  w^^  letters  of  Incouragement 
from  y^  Coll  *  for  a  future  trade,  what  trade  you  ilnde  wee  know 

•  Was  not  Col.  Scarburgh  meant? 


Alexander  Family.  2G3 

not^  but  here  it  hatli  proved  so  bad  this  yeare  that  wee  are  Re- 
solved imlesse  y®  trade  do  mend  to  desert  and  to  that  end  have 
sent  y^  shipp  another  way,  otherwise  should  have  answered  y* 
Collonells  de^ii  es  and  yours  Therefore  what  goods  you  have  left 
in  y^  country  you  may  send  either  to  Plymouth  or  Topsham  as 
you  can  best  fraight  with  y®  planters  of  y"^  Accompt,  and  either 
charge  bills  on  vs,  for  what  shall  be  more  du  or  order  what  goods 
y"  will  have  sent  and  by  whome,  and  it  shall  bee  honestly  paid  or 
sent  upon  receipt  of  yo^  acco*^,  wee  would  have  sent  some  goods 
now :  But  haueing  noe  order  by  what  shipp  we  doe  omitt  it,  like-' 
wise  their  was  a  Bill  charged  upon  vs  of  twenty  pounds  by  y*  Coll 
payable  to  j\P  Tapley  wee  did  not  pay  it  for  want  of  an  order 
from  you,  haveing  no  dealings  w^^  him,  but  otTered  ye  money 
with  M'"  Tapley  provided  hee  would  give  vs  a  discharge  as  from 
you  w'^^  I  hope  hee  will  inform  you  of,  when  hee  speakes  w^^  you 
who  parted  from  Buy  the  ford  about  five  weekes  since.  Likewise 
wee  entreat  you  as  from  vs  to  give  yo^  ffather  our  harty  thanks 
w*^^  sattisf action  for  his  charge  and  trouble,  and  charge  it  like- 
wise on  vs  in  y^  accompt  when  you  send  y^  particulers,  and  if  wee 
may  any  way  prove  serviceable  to  him  hero,  hee  may  freely 
comand  vs.  Tobacco  here  this  yeare  was  worth  from  3*^  to  -i'^J 
best.  Duty  being  paid  and  freight,  you  may  conceive  what  En- 
couragem*^  wee  haue.  However  nothing  shall  hinder  but  that 
wee  are 

Yo*"  assured  Lo :  5rinds, 

Edward  Hickman, 
Samuell  Calle, 
John  Mannington. 
5or  M*"  John  Alexander,  M^chant. 
These  p^'sent  at  Potomack  in  Virginia. 
Recorded  y«  16^^  of  April,  1664. 
^  Mr.  Rob*  Hutchinson  CI  Cur  Co:  Accom^. 
{To  he  Continued.) 


RANDOLPH  FAMILY.  '  -        :: 

{Continued.) 
Issue  of  Thomas  and  Jane   (Cary)   Randolph:    1  Archbald 
CuTj,  captain  Twelfth  IT.  S.  Infantry,  1813,  resigned;   married 
Susan,  daughter  of  Nat.  Burwell,  of  Carter  Hall,  Clarke  Co.    2 


264  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

Isham,  of  Eicliniond,  married Copelaud,  of  Richmond;   3 

Mary,  married  Eandolph  Harrison,  of  Clifton;  4  Thomas,  of 
Dungeness,  and  of  Amelia  county;  married,  first,  Mary,  daughter 
of  Henry  Skipwith,  and  had  Elizabeth,  married  E.  S.  Syming- 
ton, of  Indianapolis,  Ind. ;  married,  secondly,  Catherine  Law- 
rence; was  delegate  for  Amelia,  1804-'5-'6;  was  killed  at  the 
battle  of  Tippacannoe. 

Issue  of  Archibald  C.  and  Susan  (Burwell)  Randolph:  1  Dr. 

Philip  Grymes,  surgeon  U.  S.  N. ;  resigned  1829;  married 

Neale,  and  had  Mary,  who  married  Major  Beverley  Randolph,  of 
Clarke  county,  and  Henrietta,  married  Rev.  W.  H.  Pendleton; 
2  Dr.  Robert  Carter,  surgeon  U.  S.  IST. ;  resigned  1824;  married 
Lucy  Nelson,  daughter  of  Wm.  Wellf ord ;  3  Susan  Grymes,  mar- 
ried Dr.  Robert  Page;  4  Mary,  married  Dr.  ^latthew  Page;  5 
Lucy,  married  Edward  Hutchinson. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Robert  C.  and  Lucy  (Wellford)  Randolph:  1 
Archibald;  2  Betty,  married  Warren  Smith;  3  William  Well- 
ford;  member  of  the  Virginia  Legislature;  colonel  C.  S.  A.,  and 
killed  at  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness ;  married  Ada  Stuart,  and 
had  a  son  William;  4  Susan,  married  Edward  Randolph;  5 
Robert,  C.  S.  A.;  killed  in  battle;  6  Thomas,  married  Page  Bur- 
well;   7  Isham;  8  Mary. 

Issue  of  Isham  and (Copeland)  Randolph:  1  Julia,  mar- 
ried, 1827,  Thomas  N.  Page,  of  Shelly;  2  Jane;  3  Fannie  P., 
married,  1827,  Wm.  N.  Page,  of  Caira,  Cumberland  county:  4 
D.  Copeland,  married,  1857,  Harriet  R.  Page,  of  Union  Hill, 
Cumberland,  and  had  Mary  A. ;  D.  Copeland,  and  B.  Heth. 

Issue  of  Sir  John  and  Susan  (Beverley)  Randolph:  1  John, 
born,  1728 ;  attorney  general  of  Virginia,  and  a  lawyer  of  great 
eloquence  and  ability;  went  to  England  at  the  beginning  of  the 
Revolution,  and  died  there  January  31,  1784.  By  his  own  re- 
quest, his  remains  were  brought  back  to  Virginia  and  interred 
in  the  chapel  of  William  and  Mary  College.  He  married  Ari- 
anna,  daughter  of  Edmund  Jenings,  attorney  general  of 
Maryland.  2  Peyton,  born  1722;  studied  law  at  the  Temple; 
appointed  attorney  general  of  Virginia  1748;  member  of  the 
House  of  Burgesses  soon  afterwards;  speaker  of  the  House  1766, 
when  he  resigned  liis  place  as  attorney  general  and  held  the 
office  until  1774;  chairman  of  the  committee  of  correspondence 
1773;  elected  to  Congress  1774,  and  unanimously  chosen  its 


The  Christian  Family.  265 

president  on  September  3d;  again  in  Congress,  and  died  during 
the  session  at  Philadelphia  Oct.  22,  1775;  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Harrison,  of  Berkeley,  and  had  no  issue; 

3  Beverley,  of  Gloucester  county,  married  Wormeley;   i 

Mary,  married  Philip  Grymes,  of  Brandon,  Middlesex. 

Issue  of  John  and  Arianna  (Jenings)  Randolph:  1  Edmund, 
bom  Aug.  10,  1753;  died  in  Frederick  county,  September  12, 
1812;  differed  from  his  father  in  politics,  and  in  1775  became 
aide  to  Washington;  member  of  convention  1776;  first  attorney 
general  of  the  State  of  Virginia,  1776 ;  clerk  of  the  House  of  Del- 
egates; member  of  Congress  1779-'82;  House  of  Delegates 
1782-''5;  governor  1786-'8S;  a  leading  member  of  the  convention 
that  framed  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States,  and  of  the 
Virginia  Convention  of  1788  that  ratified;  attorney  general 
United  States  1789-''90;  secretary  of  state  United  States  1794-'5; 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Eobert  Carter  Nicholas.  2  Su- 
san, married  John  Randolph  Gr^'mes;  3  Marianna,  married 
James  Wormeley,  and  was  the  mother  of  Rear  Admiral  Ralph 
Randolph  Wormeley,  of  the  English  Navy. 

Issue  of  Edmund  and  Elizabeth  (Nicholas)  Randolph:  1  Pey- 
ton, of  Richmond,  prominent  lawyer,  author  of  "Randolph's  Re- 
ports"; died  December  26,  1828;  married  Maria,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  Ward,  Jr.,  of  Winterpock,  Chesterfield  county;  2  Su- 
san, married  Bennet  Taylor,  of  Albemarle  county;  3  Edmonia, 
married  John  L.  Preston ;  4  Lucy,  married  Judge  Peter  V.  Dan- 
iel, of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court. 
(To  he  Continued.) 


CHRISTIAN  FAMILY. 

[Continued  from  Volume  VIIL,  p.  128.) 

12  Henry  Bexskin^  Christian  (1  WilUam-,  57  WilUam^). 

Lived  at  "Lebanon,'^  in  Charles  City.    Married,  first,  Elizabeth, 

daughter  of  William  Christian,*    of  New  Kent,  second,  Mrs. 

*  This  William  Christian  must  not  be  confounded  with  any  of  those 
who  have  been  already  mentioned.  "I  know  all  about  the  family  resi- 
dence of  the  William  whose  daughter  Elizabeth  married  Henry  Benskin 
Christian,  as  it  adjoined  'Roxbury/  the  old  residence  of  my  great-grand- 
father John,  and  was  just  across  the  road  from  my  father's  residence 
'Cool  Well/  where  I  was  born.    I  went  to  school  with  his  grandchildren. 


266  WiLLTAM  AND  MaRY  COLLEGE  QUARTERLY. 

Letitia  Turner,  nee  Bradley.  By  his  first  wife  he  had :  66  Mar- 
garet"*, married  Hiram  Harris,  of  New  York.  By  his  second  wife 
he  had:  67  Annie  M.*,  married  Dr.  Peter  Gay,  and  has  descen- 
dants (untraced)  ;  6S  Bettie  Collier*,  married  her  cousin  John 
B.  Hendren  (see  Ante,  under  11  Robert^  Christian) ;  69  Wil- 
liam, never  married. 

13  Major  Edmund^  Christiaist  (1  William^,  57  William'^). 
Lived  at  "Craigton,"  Henrico  Co.  Married  Judith  Bray  Minge, 
daughter  of  David  Minge  and  his  wife  Christiana  Shields,*  and 
had:  70  Christiana*,  married  her  cousin  Dr.  Oliver  Christian. 
(see  57  Dr.  Oliver,  post.);  71  Dr.  William  Albert^;  72  Ed- 
monia*,  married  John  D.  Warren,  no  issue;  73  John  Henry, 
never  married;  74  Caroline  Loaisa.f 

14  Capt.  Jones  Kivers^  Christian  |  (1  William^,  57  Tfi7- 
liam^).  Lived  at  "Sycamore  Spring/'  New  Kent  county.  Mar- 
ried his   cousin,   Caroline   Christian,   daughter  of   Dr.    Collier 

the  children  of  his  son  Gideon  who  made  the  deed  to  which  you  refer; 
I  also  know  all  about  the  place  called  'Scruggs/  which  the  deed  conveys; 
it  adjoined  this  Gideon's  residence.  .  .  .  All  these  places  I  am  per- 
fectly familiar  with,  as  they  are  in  the  immediate  neighborhood  of  my 
own  residence,  'Belle  Isle.'" — Dr.  8amuel  P.  Christian  to  James  C. 
Lamb,  Apl.  5,  1899. 

The  deed  above  referred  to  is  dated  June  7,  1810,  and  is  between 
Gideon  Christian,  of  New  Kent  Co.,  and  Henry  B.  Christian  and  Eliza- 
beth, his  wife;  it  recites  that  William  Christian,  of  New  Kent  Co.,  then 
deceased,  had  conveyed  to  Henry  B.  Christian  and  Elizabeth,  his  wife, 
daughter  of  said  Wm.  C,  146  i/g  acres  called  "Scruggs,"  and  that  said 
Wm.  C.  had  devised  to  Gideon  and  Elizabeth  407  acres  in  Charles  City, 
which  had  not  been  divided;  and  Henry  B.  and  his  wife  convey 
"Scruggs"  to  Gideon  in  exchange  for  Gideon's  part  of  the  407  acres. 
{Charles  City  Records.) 

*  She  was  sister  of  Ann  Shields  who  married  Robert  Armistead,  of 
York  county,  the  father  of  Mary  Marot  Armistead,  who  was  the  mother 
of  President  John  Tyler. 

f  74  Caroline  Louisa  Christian  married  Dr.  George  Gilmer  !Minor, 
of  Albemarle  County,  and  had:  1  Edmund  Christian  Minor,  Judge  of 
the  Law  and  Equity  Court  of  Richmond,  who  married  Kate  Pleasants, 
and  has  issue;  2  George  Gilmer  jNIinor,  who  married  Ophelia  Yarbroiigh, 
and  has  issue;  3  Caroline  Louisa  Minor,  unmarried;  4  John  Henry 
Minor,  who  married  Evelyn  Harrison  Gilliam;  5  Susan  Watson  [Minor, 
died  in  infancy. 

$  He  was  captain  of  the  New  Kent  Cavalry  in  the  War  of  1812,  and 
his  son,  of  the  same  name  (78  Jones  Rivers,  post.) ,  was  captain  of  the 
same  company  in  the  war  between  the  States. 


The  CiiiasTiAN  Family.  267 

Christian  {sec  jiost.,  under  26  Dr.  Collier'^)  and  had  issue:  75 
William  Collier*,  married  Ann  Terrell  and  had  issue  (untraced)  ; 
76  Eldmund  Fleming,  died  in  1898,  married,  but  had  no  issue;  77 
Dr.  Henry  B.*,  living  in  Staunton,  married  a  Mrs.  Pence  (nee 
Shrikehise)  and  has  issue;  78  Jones  Ilivers,  died  unmarried 
and  without  issue ;   79  John  Henry,  died  young. 

15  JoHX^  Christian,  called  in  the  records  "of  Charles  City," 
(1  WiUiam-,  57  WilUam^).  Will,  dated  March  21,  1811,  re- 
corded in  Charles  City  Co.     Married Warren,  and  had 

issue:  SO  John,  died  without  issue;  81  Louisa  Collier*,  married 
Dr.  Smith  and  had  Jacqueline  Ambler  Smith ;  82  William  Henry 
(untraced). 

18  Thomas^  Christian  (1  William-,  57  William^).  Married 
jSTancy  Lacy,  sister  of  Eichmond  T.  Lacy,  late  of  New  Kent  Co., 
and  had  issue:  83  Mary  Rivers,  died  in  infancy;  84  WiUiam 
IIe7iry'^;  85  Sally  Ann,  died  in  infancy;  86  Edmund,  died  in 
infancy;  87  Thomas,  never  married;  88  Lucy  xYllen,  died  in 
1889;*  89  Richmond  Lacy*  (living,  unmarried)  ;  90  Frederick 
(never  married) ;  91  Ellen  (never  married) ;  92  Louisa*,  living,, 
married  her  cousin  Thomas  L.  Christian,  {see  post.,  under  48 
Llewdhjn  Arniistead'^) ,  no  issue;  93  Fanny  (never  married). 

23  Wyatt-  Christian  (1  William-,  57  WilUam^).  Lived 
in  Memphis,  Tenn.    Married  a  Mrs.  Cocke,  and  had  issue:    94 

Mary,  who  married Wells,  of  Memphis,  and  died  leading 

one  child,  Ella,  who  married  Cod,  of  New  York;    95 

Fanny,  who  married,  first, Ethridge  (no  issue),  and  sec- 
ond,   Farmer  (no  issue)  ;  96  Caroline,  who  married 

Wells  (widower  of  94  j\Iary),  no  issue. 

24  Frederick^  Christian  (1  William-,  57  William^).  Went 
to  Memphis,  Tenn.  Married  and  had  issue:  97  Sally,  (un- 
traced). 

26  Dr.  Collier^  Christian  (2  Jolin^,  57  William}).  Lived 
at  "Cool  Well,"  New  Kent.  Married  Xmi  Bates,  and  had: 
98  Dr.  John  Fleming-^;  99  Caroline*,  married  her  cousin  Jones 
Rivers  Christian  {see  14  Jones  Rivers^,  ante)  ;  100  Dr.  Jordan 
Collier*  (lived  at  "'Green  Yard,"  Charles  City),  married  liis 
cousin  Elizabeth  Warren,  daughter  of  Jane  Christian  and  Ed- 
ward Warren  {scp  ante,  under  1  William-  Christian,  note),  issue 

*  88  Lucy  Allen  Christian  married  Wm.  H.  Da  vies,  and  had  issue: 
1  Thomas  Christian,  (living)  ;  2  Mary,  died  in  infancy. 


26S  William  and  Mary  Colleqe  Quarterly. 

untraced;  101  Archibald  Hunt*,  married  Sarah  Pierce  (un- 
traced). 

27  Archibald^  CirniSTiAN  (2  JoJin^j  57  ^)(iltiam^).  Married 
Fanny  Warren,  sister  of  Dr.  Michael  Warren,  of  "Warrenton,'' 
James  City,  and  had :  102  Mary*  * ;  103  Jane*,  married,  first, 
Samuel  Parker,  second,  Philip  Buffin  (untraced) ;  104  John 
Archer,  never  married;  105  Thomas,  never  married;  106  Eliza- 
beth*, married  John  Bankhead,  grandson  of  Thomas  Jefferson 
(untraced) ;   107  Ann  Collier.f 

2S  George'^  Christian  (2  John^,  57  William^).  Lived  at 
'fountain  View,''  in  Appomattox  county,  Ya.,  formerly  a  part 
of  Buckingham  county.  Married  Joyce  Diuguid,  sister  of  the 
wife  of  10  William  Christian  {see  ante,  under  1  William'^),  and 
had:  108  Dr.  William  Duiguid^,  and  a  daughter,  Mildred  Col- 
lier, who  died  in  infancy. 

29  Col.  John  Hunt^  Christian  (2  John'',  57  William^), 
Born  September  1,  1774.  Lived  at  ^^Eoxbury,"  (now  "Mount- 
castles"),  New  Kent  Co.    Married  a  widow, Bates  (nee 

Miller),  and  had:    109  Mildred  Collier*,  married Webb, 

no  issue;  110  Heath  Jones*;  111  George  Fleming*,  went  West, 
and  has  not  been  heard  of  since  about  1860;  112  Dr.  John  Mil- 
ler^;   113  Caroline  Constance,  married  James  Walker,  no  issue. 

32  Henry  Asbury^  Christian  (5  Hennf,  57  William?-), 
married,  first,  Lucy  Wood  Dunscomb,t  and  had  issue :   114  An- 

*  102  jVIaey*  Cheistian  is  still  living  in  Charlottesville,  Va.,  more 
than  90  years  of  age.  She  married  Isaac  White  and  had  Elizabeth,  who 
married,  first,  Joseph  Kent,  of  Montgomery  Co.,  Va.;  second.  Judge  E, 
R.  Watson,  of  Charlottesville. 

1 107  An'N  Collier  Christian  married  William  Bacon  Wilkinson,  of 
New  Kent,  and  had  nine  children:  1  George  Archer,  died  of  wounds  re- 
ceived in' battle  in  the  war  between  the  States;  2  Susan;  3  Mary;  4 
Martha;  5  Fannie;  6  Southey,  killed  in  battle  in  the  war  between  the 
States;  7  John;  8  Thomas;  9  William  Collier,  now  living  in  Richmond. 

Note:  The  descendants  of  the  Christian  family  who  served  in  the 
Confederate  armies  in  the  war  between  the  States  are  almost  innumer- 
able. It  has  been  said  that  no  one  of  them  failed  to  bear  himself  with 
credit,  while  many  of  them  were  conspicuous  for, gallantry  and  devotion 
to  duty.  It  has  not  been  possible  to  notice  such  matters  in  this  article, 
but  it  is  especially  worthy  of  remark  that  William  Bacon  Wilkinson  and 
six  sons  (five  of  them  by  this  marriage)  and  two  grandsons  served  to- 
gether in  the  Virginia  regiments. 

X  Lucy  Wood  Dunscomb  was  the  daughter  of  Major  Andrew  Duns- 
comb  and  Philadelphia  Duval,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Samuel  Duval, 


The  Christian  Family.  269 

drew  H.*;  115  Martha  Philadelphia  Frances;*  IIC  Samuel  Bed- 
loe*  (untraced) ;  111  Philip  Daniel*;  118  William  Asbury,  died 

of  Henrico  County.  Major  Andrew  Dunscomb  was  the  son  of  Daniel 
Dunscomb,  of  New  York  City.  Daniel  Dunscomb  was  chosen  a  member 
of  the  General  Committee  of  Safety  for  New  York  City  and  county  on 
May  1st,  1775.  (See  American  Archives,  Vol.  2,  4th  Series,  pap^e  459.) 
Daniel  Dunscomb  in  his  will  dated  1795  and  a  codicil  dated  1802,  filed 
in  the  Surrogates  Court  in  New  York  City,  mentions  as  his  sons  An- 
di'ew,  Edward,  Samuel  Bedloe,  and  Daniel  Dunscomb. 

Major  Andrew  Dunscomb  served  in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  and 
after  the  close  of  the  war  was  appointed  by  the  United  States  Govern- 
ment to  settle  the  accounts  of  the  United  States  with  the  State  of  Vir- 
ginia. This  led  to  his  settling  in  Richmond,  Va.  He  was  Mayor  of 
Richmond  in  1795,  and  was  one  of  the  original  incorporators  of  the 
old  Mutual  Insurance  Corapany  of  Virginia,  and  was  its  first  Cashier- 
General.  (See  Calendar  of  Virginia  State  Papers,  passim;  Virginia 
Gazette  and  General  Advertiser  of  ]May  1st  and  8th,  1802,-  Examiner 
of  May  5th  and  June  5th,  1802;  Mordecai's  Richmond  in  By-gone  Days, 
pages  ^D  and  87;  Brown's  The  Cahells  and  Their  Kin,  page  277.) 

Samuel  Duval,  father  of  Lucy  Wood  Dunscomb,  was  a  member  of 
the  Virginia  House  of  Burgesses  from  Henrico  County  for  many  years; 
was  a  member  of  the  first  Virginia  Convention,  which  assembled  in  Wil- 
liamsburg on  August  1st.  1774,  and  also  of  the  second  Virginia  Con- 
Tcntion,  which  assembled  in  Richmond  on  March  the  20th,  1775.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  and  Correspondence  for  Hen- 
rico County,  elected  in  November,  1774,  pursuant  to  a  resolve  of  the 
General  Congress,  and  also  of  the  Committee  for  Henrico  County,  elected 
in  1775,  pursuant  to  an  ordinance  of  the  second  Virginia  Contention  of 
1775.  (See  American  Archives,  4th  Series,  Vol.  1,  pages  550,  985  and 
1037;  Id.,  Vol.  3,  page  1371;  Id.,  5th  Series,  Vol.  2,  page  1002.  He 
was  also  a  member  of  the  committee  appointed  by  the  General  Assembly 
in  1780  to  locate  and  lay  off  the  Capitol  Square  in  Richmond  and  for 
other  purposes.  (See  10th  Hening's  Statutes  at  Large,  page  317,  Chap- 
ter 37;  Mordecai's  By-gone  Days,  pages  14  and  15.)  He  was  also 
named  as  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  town  of  Richmond  by  an  act  of 
Assembly  passed  in  1752,  and  again  in  1773.  (See  6th  Hening's 
Statutes  at  Large,  page  281;  and  8th  Id.,  page  650.) 

Samuel  Duval  is  said  to  have  married  Lucy  Claiborne,  daughter  of 
William  Claiborne.  One  of  his  sons  was  Major  William  Duval,  an 
officer  in  the  Revolution  and  a  prominent  lawyer  of  Richmond,  and  one 
of  its  early  mayors.  The  will  of  Samuel  Duval,  proved  March  1st,  1784, 
in  Henrico  County  Court,  may  be  found  in  Will  Book  No.  1,  page  122. 

*  115  Martha  Philadelphia  Frances  Christian  married,  first, 
Dr.  Jeffrey  Daniel  Palmer,  and  had  Lucy  Frances  (who  married  Alger- 
non S.  Parham)  ;  she  married,  second,  Richard  H.  Toler.  fonnerly  editor 
of  the  Whig,  newspaper,  and  had  Bettie  Campbell,  who  died  unmarried. 


270  William  and  Mart  College  Quarterly. 

without  issue;  119  Edward  Dunscomh^j  120  Jonathan,  died  in. 
infancy. 

Henry  Asbiiry  Christian  married,  second,  i\Irs.  Susan  Fuqua, 
nee  Palmer,  daughter  of  Elias  Palmer,  of  Halifax  Co.,  and  had 
issue:  121  ]\[arccUus  Palmer'^;  122  Camillus*,  living,  married 
Mary  Davis,  and  has  issue;  123  Aurelius^ ;  124  Horace,  died  in 
infancy. 

33  Samuel  Patteson"^  Christian  (5  Henn/,  57  William^). 
Married  Ann  Patteson,  and  had  issue:  125  George*,  who  mar- 
ried, first,  Martha  Chapman,  and  second,  Sophonia  Shannon 
(untraced)  ;  126  Samuel  P.*,  who  married  Miss  Winn  (un- 
traced) ;  127  Elizabeth  Augusta;*  12 S  John*  (untraced)  ;  129 
Jonathan*  (untraced)  ;  130  William  Duval*  (untraced)  ;  131 
Alfred*  (untraced);  132  Patty*  (untraced);  133  Edward*, 
who  married  Matilda  Horst  (untraced). 

39  Egbert  Walker-  Christian  (9  Turner^,  57  William^). 
He  was  for  about  thirty  years  clerk  of  Charles  City  Co.  He 
married  a  widow,  Elizabeth  Jones  (nee  Irby),  and  had  issue: 
134  Virginia*,  who  married  Col.  James  M.  Willcox,  of  Charles 
City  Co.,  Uving,  and  has  issue;  135  Kobert  Walker,  Jr.,  never 
married;  136  Augustus,  never  married;  137  Elizabeth*,  mar- 
ried her  cousin  Dr.  Edmund  Oliver  Christian  {see  post.,  under 
57  Dr.  Oliver^) ;  13S  Richard,  married  Martha  S.  Batte,  and 
died  without  issue;  139  Philip,  never  married;  140  Mary  Light- 
foot,  never  married. 

42  William  Browne^  Christian  (9  Turner^,  57  ^Villmm'^). 
Married,  first, Armistead  (no  issue) ;  second,  Mary  Wat- 
kins,  and  had  issue:    141  Robert  Walker*,  living  and  has  issue; 

142  Edward,  never  married ;   143  Eliza  Jordan*,  married 

Roy  all,  and  died  leaving  issue  (untraced)  ;  144  Frank  A.*,  liv- 
ing and  has  issue. 

43  John  Douglas^  Christian  (9  Turner',  57  William^). 
He  was  for  about  thirty  years  clerk  of  New  Kent  Co.    Married 

*  127  Elizabeth  Augusta  Christian  married  Robert  Henry  Glass, 
of  LyncltbuTg,  and  had  issue:  1  Edward  Christian  Glass,  living  in 
Lynchburg  Va.,  married  Sue  G.  Carter,  and  has  issue;  2  Nannie  Pat- 
teson Glass;  3  Robert  Henry  Glass;  4  George  Carter  Glass,  at  present  a 
member  of  the  Virginia  State  Senate,  living  in  Lynchburg,  married 
Aurelia  Caldwell,  and  has  issue;    5  Paulus  Powell  Glass. 


/Personal  Notes.  271 

Octavia  DandriJge,*  and  had  issue:  145  Bartholomew  Dan- 
dridge*;  146  Tunier  (never  married)  ;  147  John  Douglas*,  mar- 
ried Miss  Meanley,  and  had  a  son,  John  St.  Clair,  of  Chicago, 
and  others  (untraeed)  ;  148  William  (never  married)  ;  149 
James  Stamper,  killed  at  Boonesboro,  in  the  war  between  the 
States  (never  married) ;  150  Elizabeth  Whiting  (never  mar- 
ried) ;  151  Octavia,  married  Dr.  Burke,  of  Texas  (untraeed) ; 
152  Armistead  (never  married)  ;  153  Augustine  (never  mar- 
ried). 

44  Turner^  Christian^  Junior  (9-  Turner^,  57  William^), 
He  was  clerk  of  James  City  Co.,  and  the  city  of  Williamsburg. 
Married  Susan  Marston  Ware  (widow,  nee  Williams),  and  had 
issue:  154  William  Broiun  Thompson*;  155  Elizabeth,  never 
married;  156  Emily,  a  noted  beauty,  who  married  Joseph  Carr, 
and  had  issue  (untraeed)  ;  157  Christopher,  died  in  youth;  158 
Turner,  died  in  youth. 

47  Henry  Spotswood^  Christian  (9  Turner^,  57  ^Yill^am^). 
He  Vv^as  a  stndent  of  William  and  Mary  College  in  1826-'27  and 
lS29-'30.  Went  to  Greensburg,  Ind.,  in  1838,  where  he  married 
Mary  E.  Woodfill,  and  had  five  children,  only  two  of  whom  are 
now  living,  viz. :  J.  H.  Christian  and  Mrs.  J.  P.  Long,  a  widow. 

48  Llewellyn  x^rmistead^  Christian  (9  Turner-,  57  Wil- 
liam^).  ^larried  Elizabeth  Armistead  Graves,  daughter  of  Ed- 
mund Valentine  Graves,  and  had  issue:  159  Edmonia,  never 
married;  160  Jordan  Collier,  married  Eosa  Depp,  living,  and 
has  issue;  161  Thomas  Llewellyn,  married  his  cousin  Louisa 
Christian  {see  ante,  under  18  Thomas^),  living,  no  issue. 

{To  be  continued.) 


PEESONAL  NOTES. 

{Communicated  hy  Dr.  B.  W.  Green.) 
Mr.  Vice-Chancellor  and  Gentlemen, — Whereas  the  rev.  Wil- 
liam Dawson,  Master  of  Arts  and  sometime  fellow  of  Queen's 
College,  in  our  University,  having  been  regularly  admitted  to 
that  degree  in  Easter  term,  1728,  was  soon  after  appointed  Pro- 
fessor of  j\Ioral  Philosophy  and  Tutor  to  the  College  of  Wil- 
liamsburgh,  in  Virginia,  where,  having  constantly  resided  in  that 

*  Daughter  of  Bartholomew  Dandridge,  clerk  of  New  Kent,  who  was 
a  grandson  of  Bartholomew  Dandridge,  who  was  a  brother  of  Mrs. 
George  Washington. 


272  William  and  Maky  College  Quarterly. 

capacity  from  the  year  1729,  he  was  chosen  President  of  that 
College  about  three  years  ago,  and  has  since  been  appointed 
Commissary  of  Virginia,  and  member  of  the  Council  or  Higher 
House  of  Assemblies  in  tliat  colony;  which  several  offices  re- 
quiring his  constant  attendance  at  so  very  great  a  distance  from 
hence,  will  not  allow  him  to  perform  the  statutable  exercises 
and  to  proceed  in  the  usual  method  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  in 
Divinity;  and  whereas  I  am  informed  the  University  has  re- 
ceived ample  testimonials  of  his  sound  principles  in  religion  and 
exemplary  behaviour  in  life,  by  letters  from  the  Honourable  Sir 
William  Gooch,  baronet,  the  very  worthy  Lieutenant-Governor 
of  Virginia,  strongly  recommending  him  as  deserving  of  such  a 
mark  of  our  esteem;  I  do,  therefore,  give  my  consent  that  the 
degree  of  Doctor  in  Divinity  be  conferred  on  him  by  diploma, 
upon  payment  of  the  fees  for  the  said  degree ;  and  am, 
Mr.  Vice- Chancellor  and  Gentlemen, 

Your  affectionate  friend  and  servant, 

Arran. 

Grosvenor  Street,  January  31,  1746. 

The  diploma  was  granted  on  February  16,  1746-'47. 
Notes  and  Queries,  7th  Vol.,  Ser.  V.,  June  2,  1888,  p.  422. 

On  May  21,  1778,  the  degree  of  B.  A.  was  allowed  to  Rev. 
Thomas  Gwatkin,  of  Jesus  College,  who  had  been  ordained  priest 
by  the  Bishop  of  London  in  1767,  "and  appointed  by  him  to  the 
Professorship  of  Mathematics  and  ISTatural  Philosophy  in  the 
College  of  William  and  ]\[ary  in  Williamsburgh,  in  the  province 
of  Virginia,  in  wliich  office  he  continued  from  the  year  1763  to 
1775,"  but  had  now  returned  to  the  University,  and  proposed 
to  proceed  regularly  to  the  degree  of  M.  A. 

Notes  and  Queries,  7th  Vol.,  Ser.,  VI.,  July  28,  1888,  p.  62. 

The  Eev.  Goronwy  Owen"^  a  clergyman  of  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land, and  the  premier  poet  of  Wales,  set  sail  from  Spithead  for 
America  in  December,  1757.  He  was  classical  master  at  William 
and  Mary  College,  at  Williamsburg,  Virginia,  for  three  years, 
and  was  afterward  the  minister  of  St.  Andrews,  a  parish  in 
Brunswick  Co.,  in  the  State  of  Virginia,  whence  his  last  letter  is 
dated  July,  1767. 

Mr.  Owen  died  in  1769. 

Notes  and  Queries,  7th  Vol.,  Ser.  V.,  p.  267,  p.  435. 


Historical  Notes  and  Queries.  273 

HISTOEICAL  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Manufactures  in  Virginia  :  Very  good  ships  built  there  of 
three  hundred  tons  and  upwards,  but  the  cordage,  iron  and 
smith's  work  is  brought  thither;  very  good  leather  made  and 
shipped  to  New  England ;  laboring  men's  shoes  made  there  worth 
half  a  crown,  and  will  last  much  better  than  ordinary  sole  shoes 
received  from  England.  They  only  malce  raw  cloth  like  cotton 
not  fulled,  though  the  wool  would  make  as  good  as  that  of  Eng- 
land. (Major  Wilsons  testimony  before  the  Board  of  Trade, 
September  1,  1697.) 

Werowocomoco  :  This  place  is  located  by  Dr.  Brown,  on  the 
authority  of  Robert  Tindall's  map,  at  Portan  Bay  (Poetan,  Pow- 
hatan), in  Gloucester  county.  This  view  is  confirmed  by  a  sen- 
tence in  William  Strachey's  Virginia  Britannia,  which  states 
that  Werowocomoco  was  distant  ten  or  twelve  miles  from  Kis- 
kiack,  the  last  being  just  above  Yorktown. 

Servants  :  Some  modern  historians  speak  of  the  servants  in 
the  colonies  as  slaves,  but  the  terms  of  the  indentures  were  only 
such  as  were  common  in  England.  Minutes  of  the  Committee  of 
Trade  and  Plantations  in  reference  to  the  laws  of  Jamaica  and 
the  acts  for  the  good  government  of  Christian  servants,  May  30, 
1676  :  "Their  lordships  were  not  pleased  with  the  word  servitude, 
being  a  mark  of  bondage  and  slavery,  and  think  fit  rather  to  use 
the  word  service,  since  those  servants  are  only  apprentices  for 
years."  In  Bullock's  History  of  Virginia  (1649)  is  this  para- 
graph :  "Malitious  tongues  have  impaired  it  (Virginia)  much — 
for  it  hath  been  a  constant  report  among  the  ordinary  sort  of 
people  that  all  those  servants  who  are  sent  to  Virginia  are  sold 
in  slavery;  whereas  the  truth  is  that  the  merchants  who  send 
servants  and  have  no  plantations  of  their  own  doe  not  only  trans- 
ferre  their  time  over  to  others,  but  the  servants  serve  no  longer 
than  the  time  they  themselves  agreed  for  in  England;  and  this 
is  the  ordinary  course  in  England,  and  no  prejudice  or  hurt  to 
the  servant." 

Convicts:  Answer  of  Micajah  Perry,  merchant,  refusing  to 
take  fifty  convict  women  to  Virginia;  sent  instead  to  the  Lee- 
ward Island.     (Sainsbury  MSS,,  1697.) 

Mr.  Clat  and  Mr.  Seward  :  The  following  reminiscence  was 
given  by  Mr.  Foote  in  a  speech  at  Vicksburg  in  1859 :  One  day  in 


274  William  and  Mauy  College  Quakterly. 

the  Senate  ^Ir.  Foote's  colleague  got  up  and  read  Seward's 
higher-law  speech,  delivered  at  Cleveland,  Ohio.  Mr.  Clay 
leaned  across  to  Mr.  Seward  and  said  with  eyes  of  surprise,  and 
indigration  blushing  along  his  majestic  face:  ^^Sir,  in  the  name 
of  God,  did  you  make  such  a  speech  as  that?"  Seward,  with 
huslcy  accents,  depressed  visage  and  almost  with  alarm,  confessed 
that  he  did.  ^Er.  Foote  said  that  he  would  never  forget  the  ex- 
pression of  indignation  that  he  then  saw  in  Mr.  Clay's  face.  He 
left  the  Senate  Chamber,  and  ^Ir.  Foote  walked  with  him  down 
the  hall.  Said  he  to  Foote,  "Sir,  Seward  is  an  execrable  man, 
and  that  is  an  execrable  doctrine."  {DeBoiv's  Review.) 

Ja]\[estowx  Ciiukcit  Service  :  In  addition  to  the  sacred  ves- 
sels mentioned  in  A^ol.  III.,  p.  172,  as  belonging  to  the  old  church 
at  Jamestown,  there  is  preserved  at  the  Theological  Seminary, 
near  Alexandria,  a  silver  plate,  being  part  of  a  communion  ser- 
vice, presented  to  the  church  at  Jamestown  by  Sir  Edmund  An- 
dres, in  the  year  1694.  It  was  rescued  many  years  ago  by  Mr. 
Hugh  Monroe,  of  Mobile,  from  a  lot  of  old  silver  purchased  by  a 
jeweller  in  a  southern  city  for  the  purpose  of  being  worked  over 
again  {Meade,  I.,  p.  9G).  I  have  a  pencil  rubbing  of  the  plate. 
On  the  rim  is  inscribed :  In  Uum  Eeclesic'e  Jacobolis,  Ex  Dono 
D"^^  Edmundi  Andres,  Equitis,  Yirginse  Gubernatoris,  Anno 
Dom.  MDCXCIY.  In  the  centre  of  the  plate  are  the  arms  of  a 
noble  family — supporters,  dexter  a  unicorn,  and  sinister  a  dog 
(probably  a  greyhound).  The  shield  contains  a  chevron  and 
cross  counterchanged  in  the  first  and  third  quarters,  and  a  field 
ermine  cheque  and  chevron  counterchanged  in  the  second  and 
fourth- 

NiMMO  Family  :  James  ISTimmo  emigrated  from  Linlithgow, 
Scotland,  about  1723;  was  king's  attorney  for  Princess  Anne 
county,  where  his  residence  was  "Shenstone  Green."  He  mar- 
ried Mary  daughter  of  Jacob  Johnson,  Jr.,  of  Princess  Anne 
county,  and  his  will  was  proved  April  17,  1753  {Norfolk  County 
Antiquanj,  No.  1,  p.  89.)  Issue:  (1)  WilUam,  (2)  Gershom, 
(3)  Jacob,  (4)  James.  His  wife  married,  secondly;  Jacob  Hun- 
ter. William  Nimmo,  attorney-at-law,  son  of  James  Ximmo, 
married  Elizabeth  McClennahan  May  15,  1753.  His  will  was 
proved  September  5,  1791,  and  names  children,  (1)  James,  (2) 
William,  (3)  Joseph,  (-4)  Elizabeth,  married  Ghiselin,  and  four 
granddaughters:    Mary  Damal,  Elizabeth  McClenahan,  Nancy 


Historical  Xoies  and  Queries.  275 

and  Peggy  Ninimo  Ghiselin.  James  i\immo  (lawyer),  son  of 
William  and  grandson  of  James,  married  in  1775  Elizabeth 
Thorowgood  (daughter  of  Argall  Thorowgood  and  Elizabeth 
Keeling).  He  died  January  1,  1833.  She  died  January  23, 
1808.  Issue:  (1)  John,  married  Anne  Archdeacon,  (2)  Marga- 
ret Keeling,  married  Charles  Ellis,  of  Kichmond,  brother  of 
Powhatan  Ellis,  Senator  United  States;  (3)  William  T.  Ximmo, 
member  House  of  Delegates,  etc.,  married  z\nne  Brodie;  (i) 
Col.  James  Piobinson  Nimmo  (born  1787;  died  December  31, 
1841),  who  married  Elizabeth  Tunstall  McCandlish,  daughter 
of  Kobert  McCandlish  and  Elizabeth  Coleman  (daughter  of 
Thomas  Coleman  and  Mildred  Eichards). 

William  l!^immo,  nephew  of  James  Nimmo,  the  emigrant  first 
named,  was  a  distinguished  attorney-at-law,  and  his  will  was 
proved  in  1748  (Quarterly,  V.,  p.  135).  He  gave  all  his  law 
books  to  his  cousin,  William,  son  of  James ;  one  of  these,  being 
"A  Collection  of  Laws  of  Virginia,^'  printed  at  London  in  1728, 
and  bearing  their  names  on  the  fly-leaf,  is  in  the  Virginia  State 
Library  (Quarterly,  VL,  p.  123). 

Mead:  Col.  William  Mead,  of  Bedford  county,  served  in  the 
French  and  Indian  war,  lived  ten  miles  from  Lynchburg,  depucy 
surv'eyor  to  Eichard  Stith,  served  in  the  E evolutionary^'  war.  He 
married  (1)  Ann  Hail,  by  whom  four  sons:  John,  Saniiiel, 
Nicholas  and  William.  He  married  (2)  Martha,  daughter  of 
Col.  William  Cowles,  of  Charles  City  (and  widow  of  William 
Stith,  of  Charles  City),  by  whom  Cowles  Mead,  third  son,  born 
in  Bedford  county,  October  18,  1776,  elected  to  Congress  from 
Georgia  in  1805,  and  the  same  year  appointed  by  Jefferson  secre- 
tary to  the  first  governor  of  Mississippi  territory. — X. 

Mills:  Luke  Mills,  born  in  Virginia  June  20,  1713,  settled  in 
Portsmouth,  jST.  H.,  and  died  1764.  His  son  Eligood  Mills,  bom 
in  Portsmouth,  ^N".  H.,  August  1744,  died  in  Waterboro,  ]Me., 
January  1,  1832.  Luke  Mills  is  supposed  to  have  been  a  grand- 
son of  ^lark  Mills,  who  is  said  to  have  come  to  Jamestown  in 
1636,  and  to  have  married  Mary  Elligood.  Wanted  information 
of  Mills  and  Elligood. — Mrs.  Marij  H.  Curran,  Librarian  Bangor 
Puhiic  Library,  Maine.  [Mills  and  Elligood  were  families  in 
Lower  Norfolk  county  from  an  early  date. — Editor.] 

Eppes:  Surveyed  for  Francis  Eppes  (mace-bearer)  110  acres 
which,  with  186  acres  granted  to  Thomas  Williams,  his  father-in- 


276  William  and  Mary  College  Quarterly. 

law,  are  situated  in  Bedford  county  (Original  Surveys,  Novem- 
ter,  175G).  Martha  Eppes  chooses  in  court  Nathaniel  Nance  as 
guardian  {Bedford  County  Order  Book,  1771). 

EoBiNSOX:  William  Robinson,  of  Spotsylvania  county,  gent., 
aged  forty-three,  deposed  that  John  Taliaferro,  cf  the  said 
county,  deceased,  on  25  December,  1750,  called  his  brother 
Francis  to  him  and  desired  him  to  let  his  sister,  Brooke,  have 
the  two  hundred  pounds  that  Christopher  liobinson,  at  Urbanna, 
owed  him,  together  with  one  hundred  pounds  to  be  raised  by 
said  Francis,  but  that  said  Francis  should  have  all  the  rest  of  his 
property.  Recorded  September  3,  1751.  William  Robinson  mar- 
ried Agatha  Beverley  in  1738  {Spotsylvania  County  Records). 
William  Robinson  married,  in  1758,  Agnes  Smith  {Orange 
County  Records).  His  deed  of  gift  to  his  son  John  1754.  •  His 
will  was  proved  May  5,  1793,  and  names  sons  Benjamin,  Samuel 
and  Francis,  and  daughters  Lucy  Nelson,  Elizabeth  Nelson  and 
Agnes  Robinson. 

RoBiNSOZs":  Anthony  Robinson  died  at  Gloucester,  England, 
October  5,  1641,  leaving  six  sons,  namely,  Robert,  Anthony, 
John,  Henr}',  William  and  Samuel;  the  said  Robert  was  his  son 
and  next  heir,  and  was  then  aged  thirty  and  more.  Said  Samuel 
was  his  youngest  son,  and  was  then  aged  eleven  years  two  months 
and  two  weeks.  Anthony  Robinson,  Sr.,  married  Hester  Brown, 
daughter  of  Hester  Goldsborough.  He  was  son  of  Robert  Rob- 
inson, td  whom  William  Cook  devised  for  one  hundred  years 
three  tenements  on  Watringe  street,  in  the  Parish  of  St.  Oswald, 
alias  St.  Catherine  {Gloucestershire  Inquisitions  post  mortem, 
Charles  I.,  issued  hy  British  Record  Society).  John  Robinson 
died  in  New  Poeosin  Parish,  York  county,  March  1,  1688,  and 
was  founder  of  a  prominent  Virginia  family.  His  eldest  son 
was  Anthony  Robinson,  bom  May  1,  1662,  died  November  11, 
1727  {see  Ilayden's  Virginia  Genealogies).  John  Robinson, 
aged  nineteen,  embarked  for  Virginia  June  6,  1635.  John  Rob- 
inson, aged  thirty-two,  embarked  for  Virginia  June  23,  1635. 
John  Robinson  was  living  in  Virginia  at  Elizabeth  City,  in  1625. 
He  came  in  1622,  then  aged  twenty-one. 

Walker:  The  undersigned  is  very  anxious  to  obtain  some 
information  of  General  William  Walker,  known  as  '^^The  Filibus- 
ter." He  was  bom  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  May  8,  1824.  His  fa- 
ther, James  Walker,  was  a  Scotchman.    He  was  first  a  merchant. 


Historical  Notes  and  Queries.  277 

then  president  of  the  Commercial  Insurance  Company  at  Xash- 
ville;  and  his  mother's  name,  Norvell,  would  indicate  that  she 
also  was  Scotch.  Would  like  to  know  William  Walker's  grand- 
father's name,  wlio  he  married^  place  of  residence,  etc.  Also 
names  of  William  Walker's  brothers  and  sisters,  whether  he  was 
married  or  not,  and  if  so,  were  there  children.  The  data  is 
wanted  for  a  genealogical  history  of  the  Walker  family  soon  to 
be  published. 

Would  like  also  to  know  names  of  ancestors  of  William  Walker, 
who  was  stolen  from  his  home  in  Eockbridge  county,  Ya.,  by  the 
Indians  about  1781,  he  being  then  eleven  years  old.  Was 
adopted  and  raised  by  the  Wyandotte  Indians,  took  an  active 
part  in  the  mission  work  at  Upper  Sandusky,  and  was  always 
honorable  and  upright  in  all  his  dealings  with  his  adopted  peo- 
ple; also  with  the  white  people  in  that  vicinity.  His  son  Wil- 
liam married  and  raised  a  large  and  respectable  family,  and  was 
also  instrumental  in  establishing  missions  wherever  the  wander- 
ings of  liis  tribe  found  them  located  for  any  length  of  time.  He 
was  for  some  time  secretary  to  General  Lewis  Cass.  Was  made 
governor  of  Kansas  Territory  in  1853.  The  Territorv^  then  em- 
braced what  is  now  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  He  died  in  IS 74. — 
Mrs.  J.  B.  White,  630  Humholdt  Avenue,  Kansas  City.  Mo. 

Sheriffs  ix  1705:  Henrico,  John  Eolling;  Charles  City, 
Eichard  Bradford;  Prince  George,  Francis  Mallory;  Surry, 
Thomas  Holt;  Isle  of  Wight,  iN^ath.  Eidley;  Warwick,  Tho. 
Haines;  York,  William  Barber;  James  City,  David  Bray;  Xew 
Kent,  Eoger  Thompson;  King  William,  Martin  Palmer;  Eling 
and  Queen,  John  Walker;  Xansemond,  Luke  Haveild;  Xorfolk, 
Matt  Sperie;  Princess  Ann,  Henry  Chapman;  Elizabeth  City, 
Francis  Ballard ;  Middlesex,  Matthew  Kemp ;  Gloucester,  Conqt. 
Wyat;  Essex,  Tho.  Meriweather;  Eichmond,  William  Tayloe; 
Lancaster,  John  Turl^erville ;  Northumberland,  Eichard  Hainie; 
Westmoreland,  William  Allerton;  Stafford,  George  Mason. — 
Virginia  Council  Booh.  ♦ 


BOOK  REVIEWS. 


Early  Settt-ers  of  Alabama.    By  Col.  James  Edmonds  Saunders,  Law- 
rence county,  Alabama..     With  Xotes  and  Genealogie.s  by  his  grand- 
daughter Elizabeth  Saunders  Blair  Stubbs,  New  Orleans,  La.     In 
two  parts.     1S99. 
Mrs.  Stubbs  has  made  a  most  valuable  contribution  to  Southern  his- 
tory by  this  handsome  volume.     She  has  been  tireless  in  getting  mate- 
rial, and  has  sho^Ti  much  skill  and  erudition  in  arranging  the  infinite 
details  which  enter  in  the  work.    There  are  pedigrees  more  or  less  com- 
plete of  over  53  families. 

SoiLE  Xotes  on  the  First  Kecorded  Visit  of  White  ]Me>"  to  the  Site 
OF  the  Present  City  of  Richmond,  Virginia.     By  Robert  Lee 
Traylor,  of  Eichmond,  Va.     1899. 
This  is  a  tasteful  little  monograph  by  one  of  the  best-informed  men 

in  Virginia  on  Virginia  books  and  Virginia  history. 

Oveewharton  Parish  Register;    1720  to   1760,  Stafford  county,   Va. 
By  Wm.  F.  Boogher,  Washington,  D.  C.     1899. 
This  book  is  invaluable  to  genealogists. 

The  South  Carolina  Historical  and  Genealogical  jNL^gazine.    Pub- 
lished quarterly  by  the  South  Carolina  Historical  Society,  Charles- 
ton, S.  C.     Vol.  I.,  Xo.  1,  January,  1900.     X".  S.  Salley,  Jr.,  secre- 
tary and  treasurer. 
No  State  has  a  more  interesting  history  than  South  Carolina,  and 

the  editor  warmly  welcomes  this  opening  number,  which  does  credit  to 

its  editor. 

WiLLiAii  Wallace  Tooker  sends  his  interesting  paper  upon  ''The 
Adopted  Algonquin  term  Poquosin,"  reprinted  from  the  American 
Anthropologist,  (X".  S.),  Vol.  I.,  January,  1899. 

Albert  S.  Gatschel  sends  his  interesting  papers  on  "Real,"  "True,"  or 
"Genuine"  in  Indian  Languages,  reprinted  from  the  American 
Anthropologist.     January,  1899. 

Family  or  Armistead  of  Virginia,  printed  for  William  S.  Appleton, 
Boston,  Mass.  1899. 
The  compiler  says,  "IMr.  Lyon  G.  Tyler,  President  of  the  College  of 
William  and  Mary,  has  lately  prepared  and  printed  in  the  William 
AND  !NLvEY  College  Quarterly  a  better  history  of  the  Family  of 
Armistead  of  Virginia  than  one  would  have  thought  possible.  The 
reason  of  my  own  interest  in  the  family  appears  in  the  sixth  generation. 


Book  PiEviews.  279 

I  have,  therefore,  arranged,  in  simple  geneuh^gical  r-jhape,  so  much  of  tlie 
matter  in  the  Quakterly  as  was  necessary  for  the  purpose." 

The  Authorship  of  the  Quatue  Lettkes  D'Un  Bourgeois  de  New 
Haven,  published  in  ]Mazzei"s  Recherches  [liaioriqucs,  etc.  By 
Simeon  Baldwin,  LL,  D.  New  Haven.  1900. 
This  pamphlet  gives  us  a  very  interesting  account  of  Philip  Mazzei, 
an  Italian,  who  before  the  Revolution  was  an  intimate  acquaintance 
and  admirer  of  Jefferson.  He  came  to  Virginia  in  1773.  bringing  with 
him  a  dozen  Italian  laborers  with  the  purpose  of  introducing  the  culture 
of  the  olives,  lemons  and  grapes  of  his  native  country.  He  wrote  in 
Italian  a  history  of  the  United  States,  which  was  translated  and  pub- 
lished in  French.  Dr.  Baldwin  thinks  that  the  real  author  of  the 
"Four  Letters"  which  Mazzei  publishes  in  his  work  as  proceeding  from 
"one  of  the  greatest  meu  of  the  age"  was  Condorcet.  The  career  of 
Mazzei,  who  eventually  became  "Privy  Councillor  to  the  King  of 
Poland,"  hardly  justifies  Dr.  Baldwin  in  apparently  referring  to  him  in 
his  opening  paragraph  as  ''an.  insignificant  man."  Among  those  who 
appear  to  have  come  with  Mazzei  to  Virginia  was  Charles  Bsllini,  the 
first  professor  of  Modern  Languages  in  America. 

The  Virginia  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography.    January.     1900. 
This  number  is  full  of  good  things.     Mr.  Stanard,  the  editor,  main- 
tains a  high  standard  of  vvork. 

The  Lower  Norfolk  County  Antiquary.    Edward  W.  James,  editor. 

This  is  the  first  part  of  Vol.  III.  The  people  of  Norfolk,  Portsmouth, 
Norfolk  county  and  Princess  Anne  owe  Mr.  James  many  thanks  for  the 
good  work  that  he  is  doing  for  them  and  their  posterity.  He  is  singu- 
larly accurate  and  painstaking. 

The   AiCERiCAN   Historical  IMagazine,   January,    1900,   reflects   great 
credit  u])on  its  editor,  W.  R.  Garrett,  Ph.  D.     Nashville,  Tenn. 

Officlal  Report  of  the  Fourth  General  Tyler  Fajiily  Gathering, 
September  13,  1899,  at  Washington,  D.  C.  By  TF.  I.  Tyler  Brigham. 
This  is  an  excellent  w^ork.  The  paper  of  Mr.  Brigham.  the  Family 
Historian,  on  the  various  branches  of  the  Tyler  Family  in  the  South  is 
very  instructive.  The  paper  of  Mrs.  Georgia  Tyler  Kent  on  the  wives 
of  President  John  Tyler  and  that  of  Col.  Mason  W.  Tyler  on  the  Presi- 
dent himself  are  in  excellent  taste  and  very  valuable. 


Genealogical  Searches 

MILL  be  made  on  reasonable  terms  in  the  splendid 
and  extensive  collection  of  English  and  American 
Genealogical  Works  in  the  Library  of  Congress, 

and  in  the  Public  Records  in  Washington.  Fifteen  years' 
experience  in  this  class  of  work  enables  me  to  do  it  thor- 
oughly, expeditiously  and  satisfactorily.  Exceptional  facili- 
ties for  establishing  Proofs  of  Services  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  Expert  advice  as  to  how  to  prosecute 
searches  for  genealogical  information  in  England,  after 
the  data  in  the  Library  of  Congress  has  been  exhausted. 
I  have  access,  in  several  libraries,  to  hundreds  of  works  on 
English  Heraldry,  so  that  Seals,  Coats  of  Arms,  Etc., 
may  be  found  and  identified. 

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IN  PREPARATION. 

THE  WALTONS  OF  VIRGINIA 

And  Some  Allied  Families 

Will  contain  notice,  more  or  less  extended,  of  the  follow- 
ing families :  Adger,  Bacon,  Baker,  Browne,  Carring- 
ton,  Cox,  Dalton,  Ellison,  Fleming,  Gentry,  Goodrich, 
Hughes,  Knight,  Matthews,  Murphy,  Mushatt,  McEn- 
tire,  Nickolls,  Roberts,  Rice,  Sharp,  Smythe,  Tilman, 
Woodson,  Yarbrough,  etc.,  etc. 

Additional  data  concerning  above  families,  not  already  in 
possession  of  Compiler,  is  desired. 

The  edition  will  be  limited  and  issued  to  subscribers  only. 

For  further  particulars,  address 

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SUBJECT   INDEX. 


VOLUME    VIII, 


[Titles  of  articles  pj-inted  in  small  capitals,] 


Accounts  of  the  College  (1693-1697), 

166-171. 
^Vi.EXAXDER  Family,  262-263. 
Allen  FAMn.Y,  110-112,  132-133. 
Allelto:"?,  Isaac,  and  the  Indians. 
Anecodote:  Clav  and  Seward,  274. 
Arm'isi-sad  FAiiiLy,  03-70,  133-134,  278. 
A)^soc]ATiON,  Ladies  of  the,  36. 
Bac-oii's  Bebellion,  39. 
Bacon,  Eev.  Thomas.  9. 
T^althurst  Family,  Notes  on,  98. 
j?L-Vfrv  Diary  of  John,  1-17. 
Eland,  Maey.  34-35. 
iiuf^S-MAKTNG,  SO,  167,  200,  207. 
IUr;^?sses.  32. 

CAii;i  Family,  lOG-lOS,  130-132. 
Ca^'.tek.  Arrest  of  Col,  John,  33. 
i:^rts.  37-3S. 
Vavaijers,  33,  183. 
Chiles  Family.  105-106. 
-uRisTXAN  Family.  70-74,  122-128,  265- 

27 i.  ■ 
Cl)urch,  Organ  for  ?et>\vorth.   130;    old 

p'l.iie  for  St.  Mary's  Church,  in  Smith's 

liuncred,   130, 
I'Hi  RCfiiLL  Family,  47-50,  200-202. 
CVcW,  lenrv,  274. 
C'xicae:.,  39-43,  128. 
Co-KLTZR  Family,  153. 
Co ir-or-ArEi.^— Allen,  Eassett,  133:   Bay- 

.«vd,  134:  Chriritian,  71:  Epe.>,  129. 
Cor.EUE  Life,  Giirap.^es  of,  153-160,  213- 

O...Lii:a  Family.  202,  203,  255,  257. 

C  -ivicts,  273. 

(.':-.' A  ^y  Fumilv,  lOS-llO. 

ri  i>RL:>'T  Eri^ors,  80. 

DA.,':s-Gf-:KFiELD  Family.  96-100. 

Dir^.i.]  Family,  269, 

E-^fCATioN  IN  Virginia,  82,  129,*  169. 

Fl.'ct:ons.   81:    polls    in    Westmoreland 

.■  'unty.  32, 
Ep-  Family,  233,  275;  coat-of-arms  of, 

2-). 
r.\;  T.~  fttf>M  Southern  Side-Liguts,  74. 


Fai'ql'ier,  Francis,  Will  of,  171-177. 

Franklin's  Parable  xIgajnst  Persecu- 
tion, 231-236. 

Fov/KE,  Col.  Gerabd,  and  the  Indians, 
23,  24. 

Fox,  Crawxey,  and  Kenner  Bible  Re- 
cords, 108. 

Frithian,  Philip  Vickers,  a  tutor,  76. 

Galt  Family,  259,  262. 

Genealogies:  Alexander.  262;  Allen, 
110;  ArniiF>tead,  63,  133;  Batbarst. 
99;  Carr,  106,  130;  Chiles,  105:  Chris- 
tian, 70;  Collier,  20i,  255;  ChurchilL 
47,  200;  Daingerfield,  06;  Gait,  259: 
Herbert,  147;  ITul,  257 ;  Hope,'  257; 
Jameson,  251:  Lockev,  202:  Lun-ford, 
183;  Minor,  196,  247;  Kandoiph,  119, 
263;   Seaweil,  54,  135. 

Genealogical  Notes:  Banks,  46; 
Bayard,  134,  207;  Black,  150;  Boswell, 
54;  Carter,  9,  18;  Cockersham,  161; 
Dandridge,  271;  Douglas,  127;  Duni- 
court,  269:  Duval,'  269;  Epes,  23S. 
275;  Glass,  270;  Hallara,  237;  Hard- 
man,  126;  Hardimr-Builer,  75;  Hare, 
227;  Haynie,  42  T  Hume.  84.  205: 
Jones,  191;  Kins^,  4;  Leraellin.  238; 
Lloyd,  18;  Mead,' 275;  Mills,  134,  209, 
275:  Morris,  134;  Palmer.- 126:  Pre-^lev. 
2;  Randolph,  75;  Reid,  213,-227;  Rob-' 
inson,  276;  Rogers,  104;  Stedmau,  34: 
Swan,  129;  Tapscott,  209;  Thornton. 
2,  43.  57;  Thruston,  51;  Walker,  17, 
276;  Waller,  79;  Washington- Asl^toQ- 
West,  75. 

Goochland  County,  91. 

Hampden-Sidnev  College,  Curriculum  at, 
227. 

Hanover  Town,  3. 

Herbert  Fa  mil  v.  147. 

Hill  Family,  256. 

Hope  Family.  257. 

Huguenots,  31. 

Indian  War  in  1676.  24-27. 

Indiana,  9,  10,  11,  23,  24,  27,  164. 


A-] 


IV 


INDEX. 


Ironworks,  4. 

Jameson  Family,  251-257. 

Jamestown,  Blain's  Tombstone  at,  2; 
service  plate  of,  274. 

JoisEs,  Orlando,  Will  or,  191-193. 

Kenner  Family,  lOS-110. 

King  William  Parish,  Tithables  in,  31. 

Lawyers  of  the  Seventeenth  Cen- 
tury, 237-245. 

Lee,  Gen.  Robert  E.,  140. 

Letters:  Thomas  Griffith,  22;  Henry- 
Lee,  34;  James  Hume,  85,  80;  G. 
Hume,  86,  87,  88,  89;  N.  Home,  90; 
John  Rogers,  101;  William  Munford, 
153,  154,  155,  156,  157;  John  Coalter, 
150,  157;  L  A.  Coles,  158;  Sir  Wil- 
liam Berkely,  165;  Tliomas  Goodrich 
and  Humphrey  Booth,  165;  W.  Mad- 
den, 205;  Charles  A.  Stuart,  214,  218; 
Joseph  C.  Cabell,  215;  Thomas  L. 
Preston,  216,  217;  Miss  Charlotte  Bal- 
fum,  217;  Samuel  Mark,  218,  219, 
220;  William  Radford,  219,  221;  Ed- 
win J.  Harvie,  220;  Samuel  McDowell 
Reid,  221,  223,  224,  226,  227;  Andrew 
Moore,  221;  Albert  Allmond.  221,  222, 
223;  S.  R.  Willison,  222;  James  Pace, 
223;  Charles  Buford,  223;  James  Mc- 
Dowell, 224,  226;  William  C.  Preston, 
226;  Christopher  Bovse,  229;  Eliz. 
Morer,  229;  Cornelius  Loyd,  229; 
Joseph  Croshaw,  230;  William  Hal- 
lam,  238,  242,  244;  William  Mason, 
239,  240,  244;  Edward  Dumminger, 
245 ;  Dolly  Graham  Jameson,  255 ; 
Arran,  271;  Edward  Hickman  and 
others  to  John  Alexander,  263. 

Libraries,  211;  Col.  John  Carter's,  18; 
Col.  Daniel  MeCarty's,  19-21;  Col. 
John  Waller's,  77-80;  John  Herbert's, 
145-148;  David  Black's,  148-150;  Col. 
Southey  Littleton's,  230-231  ;Dr.  George 
Hacke's,  237. 

Lincoln,  Course  of,  in  the  War  Between 
the  States,  139. 

Littleton  Family-,  230. 

Lunsfoi:d,  Sir  Thomas,  and  his  Family, 
183-187. 

McClellan,  George  B,,  140. 

Manufactures,  273. 

Marriage  Bonds:  Charles  City  County, 
193-196;  Goochland,  91-96. 

Mazzei,  Philip,  279. 

McLaughlin,  Andrew  C,  140. 

Mead  Family,  275. 

Merchants.  Tricks  of,  83. 

Methodists,  36. 

Minor  Family,  196-200,  247. 

Negroes — WTiite  men  hung  for  murder 
of,  35 ;  imported  from  Africa,  4. 

New  Cattle,  Hanover  county,  3. 

NiMMO  Family,  274-275, 

Northumberland  county,  42. 


Plate. — Oldest  in  America,  130. 

Painting,  204. 

Personal  Notices. — Marriages,  D.,c:ths^ 
etc.,  27-31,  87-91,  271-273. 

Powhatan's  Tree,  130. 

Presbyterians,  128. 

Princeton's  Debt  to  Willi  a  ai  a  no 
:\Iary,  32. 

Princeton,  Riot  at,  216,  223:  Dis-ipalion 
at,  222,  223;  Curriculum  at,  2-^7. 

Queries  regarding  Edward  Hardirg,  75; 
Thomas  Butler,  75;  Willoughfrv-  Kaa- 
dolph,  75;  Tliornton  Randoli  ii,  75; 
Harrison  Randolph,  75;  Henry  \V.:sh- 
ington,  75;  John  West,  76;  Cav-'-d 
Seals,  134;  William  Mills,  134.  -209; 
Mourning  Stone,  134,  20S;  Eleanor 
Morris,  134;  Esther  Phalby,  i:'4; 
Capt.  John  Williams,  135;  Diaira 
Coleman,  135:  Daniel  Henderson,  V''5; 
John  Irwin,  135;  Thomas  Clendijain. 
208;  Rudolph  Mvers,  208;  TliOmas 
Holliday,  208:  Tapscott  Brothers.  iuO: 
Luke  Mill^,  275;  Mary  Ellegocd.  -75; 
William  Walker,  -'the^tilibuste.-.'  270; 
William  Walker,  of  Rockbridge,  .:7.', 

Randolph  Family,  119-122,  263-265. 

Roads,  37-43,  128. 

Robinson  Families,  276. 

Rogers,  Capt.  John,  of  Caeolina.  lOO- 
105. 

Ropes,  John  C.  138-141. 

Scotch  Burial,  129. 

Schools — Bacon's,  9;  Littleton's,  130. 

Sea  well  Family',  59-62,  135. 

Servants,  273. 

Seward,  William  H.,  273. 

Sheriffs  in  1705,  277. 

Slavery:  How  Fastened  Upon  the 
County,  141 ;  Indian,  165 :  Slave 
Trade,"  4. 

South  Carolina  College,  Course  of  Siudv 
at,  226. 

Spencer,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  Charitable  Be- 
quests of,  129. 

Stedman,  Charles,  Biography  of.  04, 

Surry  County,  Tithaoles  in,  IG'-;  Tas- 
tices  of,  167;  Tombstones  in,  112. 

Thruston,  John,  Will  of,  51-54,  .15 
119. 

Tobacco  Smoking,  SO. 

Tombstones:  Elizabeth,  Col.  \'rii".'ini 
Allen,  112;  John  C.  Arraiste.-.a.  I  icv 
Ann  Fanny  Armistead,  178;  Cr^a.  .'il 
liam  Armistead,  63 ;  William  a.  S  'ue 
Armistead,  179;  Thomas  Banx.^.  i  "i : 
Fleming  Bates,  44;  Dr.  Jaraf->  B  ar 
2,  3;  Carl,  a  dog.  181;  Williaia  Ci  am- 
berlayne,  182;  Peter  Cox,  4';  liir 
Armistead  Edloe,  113;  Charles  H.  Ed- 
loe.  John  Edloe.  114;  Thomas  ^riil.  U: 
Elizabeth  S.  Gilliam,  181;  J-hn  Gil- 
liam,    182;     Elizabeth     Hayr-<-,     i2; 


INDEX. 


Mar'iia  Hall,  180;  Ann  Harrison,  Rev. 
\',  ll.iin  Harrison,  179;  William  Jen- 
nin--,  183;  William  Keene,  45;  Dun 
can  McNaughton,  45;  Col.  James 
Muor'-,  43;  Sarah  Moore,  44;  Martha 
\.  Orsrain,  Mary  Allen  Orgain,  114; 
Montgomery  McKenzie  Ordain,  115; 
R.  GrifSn  Orgain,  114;  Thomas  J.  Per- 
kinson,  180;  Sylvester  J.  Pierce,  181; 
John     Randolph,    ISO;     John    Roney, 

.  ISl;  Presley  Thornton,  43;  Francis 
Tucker.  180;  William  McHwaine  Wal- 
lace, 182;  William  Waller,  79. 

Tyler  Family  Reunion,  279. 

r'niver-ity  of  Virginia,  Elective  System 
at.  227. 

Vines  Family,  256. 

Virginia,  Fry  and  Jefferson's  Map  of, 
9:  Manufacturies  in,  273;  Ship- 
builders in,  273;  Art  of  Painting  in, 
•204;  Elections  in,  81;  Brickmaking 
in.  50,  107;  Tobacco  Smoking  in,  80; 
Education  in,  82. 

ViRdixiA  Gazette,  Personal  Notes 
horn,  27-31,  187-191. 

V/d.^hir.^ton  Academy:  Free  from  Dissi- 
pation, 210:  James  Madison  Invited  to 
be  President  of,  221. 

V/a>hington's  Lodge,  257. 

Wero^ocomoco,  273. 

Westmoreland  Countv,  Election  in,  32. 


Whale  Fishery,  6. 

Wrigbt,  Dr.  David  Minton,  G6. 

William    and    ^lary    College,    State    of. 

in  1773-1775,  p.  76;  Bvxjks,  Map-,  and 

^Mathematical  Instruments  left  bv  Gov. 

Spotswood  to,  128;  Riot  at,  216'.  222; 

Duel    at,    220;    Good    Order    at,    21S; 

Electric  System  at,  227:   Plays  at  15; 

Hot  Bed  of  Republican  Principles  at, 

159;  Natural  Sciences  Favorite  Study 

at,  159. 
Williamsburg,    Governor's    House    at,    1, 

6.    10,    13,   16,   117;    Church   at.   3,   4; 

Capitol  at,  12,  16;  Indians  at.  10,  11; 

Apollo  Hall  at,  12,  16;  Gov.  Dinwiddie 

at,  15;   Charity  of  the  People  of,  33; 

Dr.    Witherspoorfs    Address     at,     33 ; 

First  Theatre  in.  137;   Plays  at,  150  > 

Cape  Company  Meet  at,  5. 
Wills:    Elizabeth  Sea  well,  56;   Sterlino: 

Thornton,     57;      John     Sea  well,     50; 

Lewis  Morris,  83;  John  Thruston.  51, 

115;   Elizabeth  Spencer,  129;   Orlando 

Jones,    191-192:    Francis    Dade,    205; 

Francis  Fauquier.  205. 
Witherspoon,  Dr.,  33. 
Yale  College.  Study  at,  214;   Society  at, 

214;  Favorable  ^to  Morals,  224. 
Yorktown,   Roads,   Houses   and   Gardens 

at,  42. 


BOOK  REVIEWS. 


Wcrd  Book  of  Virginia  Folk  Speech,  bv 

Dr.  B.  W.  Green,  137,  210. 
tiome  yoiahle  Families  of  America,  by 

Anna  Robinson  Watson.  137. 
^Va  diington   and   the   Theatre,   by    Paul 

Leicester  Ford,  137. 
Letters  of  ^yashington  ajid  Accompany- 

i   7    Papers,    bv    Stanislaus     Murray 

Hamilton,  138,  ' 
The  Story   of   the   Civil   War,   by  John 

'v   "'rnan  Ropes,  138. 
A    H'<tory  of  the  American  Nation,  by 

Kntrew  C.  McLaughlin,  140-144. 
Ec  •■•''/  '•^cttlers  of  Alabama,  by  Col.  James 

-'Mn-.onds    Saunders,    278,    with    notes 

:  t1  ;::enealogies  bv  his  granddaughter, 

r:.ii/.ibeth  Saunders  Blair  Stubbs. 
;S''     f  .Votes  of  the  First  Recorded  Visit 

"'■  White  Men  to  the  Site  of  the  Pres- 

'  nt    Citu    of    Richmond,    Virginia,    by 

Ivt.bert  Lee  Traylor.  278. 
Thi    Aih,ptf>d  Algonquin  Term  Puquosin, 

^v  W  iiliam  Wallace  Tooker,  278. 


Overicharton  Parish  Register,  1^20  to 
1760,  Stafford  County,  Virginia,  bv 
\\m.  F.  Boogher.  278. 


The     South      Carolina     Hi 


\l     and 


Genealogical  Magazine,  published  quar- 
terly by  the  South  Carolim\  Historical 

Society,  278. 
Real,    True    .or    Genuine,    by    Albert    S. 

Gatschel,  278. 
Family  of  Armistead  of  Virginia.  278. 
The   Authorship    of   the    Quatre'  Leitres 

D'TJn    Bourgeois    de    New    Haven,    by 

Simeon  Baldwin,  279. 
The   Virginia   Magazine   of  History  and 

Biography,  by  W.  G.  Stanard,  279. 
The   Loicer   Norfolk    County   Antiquarg^ 

by  Edward  W .  James.  270. 
The   American   Historical   Maoazine,   hv 

W.  R.  -Garrett,  279. 
Official    Report    of    the    Fourth    Grr.eral 

Tyler    Familu    Gathering,    bv    W.    I. 

Tyler  Brigham,  279. 


GENERAL  INDEX, 


Abbott,  185. 

Abingdon  Parish,  38. 

Abingdon  Church,  G2. 

Abingdon  Parish  Register,  61. 

Abraham,  233-230. 

Adams,  6G,  95,  120,  142,  153,  253. 

Addison.  108. 

'•Airweli,*^  200. 

Aitehison,  100. 

Albatson.  162. 

Aidei-scn,  18. 

Aldrey,  220. 

Aldridire,   184. 

Aldworth,  51.  52.  53,  116,  110. 

Alpxander,  125,  262-263.  / 

Alien,  8,  12.  28.  66,  69.  97,  110-112,  113, 

132-133,  151,  161,  162,  166,  261. 
Allerton,  24.  136,  277. 
Allmond,  221,  222,  223. 
Alvis,  94,  06,  193. 
Ambler,  3,  11.  31. 
Arijl.erson,  118. 
American  Archives,  269. 
Anif.ri.cvji  Historical  Review,  76. 
An-jerican  Revolution,  34,  42,  60.  63,  64, 

76.  81.  82,  100,  103,  104,  108.  125,  135, 

136.  160,  201,  208,  209,  238,  252,  257, 

264,  269,  275,  279. 
Ammons,  194,  195. 
AjjiGUfst   (Ammonet),  31.  128. 
Anvothill,  122. 
Anderson,  16,  92,  108,  122,  147.  198,  222, 

261. 
Andrews,  163. 
Andros,  166,  167,  171,  274. 
An^-cdotes  of  Martyrs,  232. 
Apperson,  125,  195. 
Appleton,  140,  278. 
Anplewhait,  164. 
Apoollo,  9. 
A  roller,  220, 
Archdeacon.  275. 
Archer's  Hope,  130. 
Armistead      (Armytstead)       (Umstead), 

39,  48.  55,  S6,  63-70,  98,  125,  133,  134, 

178,  179,  195,  211,  258,  266,  270,  278. 
Artes,  244. 
Arton,  91. 
Ash.   154. 
A.-hton,  75.  76. 
Atkins,  124,  163,  193. 
AtkiDbOB,  56. 


Ayres,  253,  254,  255. 

liachelor,  66. 

"Bacon's  Carstle,"   110,   151. 

Bacon's  Rebellion,  39,  01,  202. 

Bacon,  9,  32,  61,   110,   165. 

Bagnall,  262. 

Bailton,  69,  70. 

Baily,   194. 

Baird,  208. 

Baker,  8,  110,  161.  166,  169,  190. 

Baldwin,  222,  279. 

Baldry,  203. 

Balfour,  155,  217. 

Ball,  35,  48,  07,  108,  109,  110. 

Ballard,  167,  185,  228,  257,  277. 

Ball's  History,  63,  64. 

Baltimore,,  Lord,  28. 

Banister,   156. 

Bankhead,  120,  268. "" 

Banks.  46,  93. 

Barber,  257,  277. 

Barham.  161. 

Barker,  69,   102. 

Barlow,  195. 

"Barn  Elms,*'  40.  50. 

Barraud,  154.   190. 

Barrett,  152. 

Barron.  258. 

Bartley,    161. 

Baskevvie,  203. 

Bassett,  97,  111,  113,  132,  133,  195. 

Bates,  43.  44,  267.  268. 

Bathurst   (Butheurst),  97,  98-100.- 

Batte  (Batt),  163,  166,  270. 

Battaile,  98. 

Battersea,  156. 

Battle,  99. 

Battle  Abbv,  248. 

Batts,  195." 

Bauff,  86. 

Baugh,  92. 

Baxter,  202,  221. 

Bavlor,  98. 

BaVly    (Baylev,    Baler),    238,    2oO,    >4C 

241,  245. 
Bavard     (Bard,    Barde.    Beard,    Bvrd) 

134,  207,  208. 
Beale   (Beall),  209,  261,  262. 
Beard,  184. 

"Bear  Castle,"   107,  108. 
Beasley,  161. 
Beckley,  133. 


INDEX. 


VU 


1^0.  kit.   1)5. 
l><kir.  1>. 
r-(kwilh,  1G2. 
I'  ^i.'iit,  ::0S. 

l;.ltlel.l,  00,   100. 

llt-n,  17,  195,  196. 

"Iklle  I.sle,"  266. 

'•Belle  Farm/'  62. 

BtUini,  279. 

Benuin,  31. 

lU^nit,  65.    • 

I'.ennet.  ?,  164. 

i-'.L-n^kin.  184. 

Beritiey.  162. 

-Bprk-ple-v'  36,  265. 

I'  rkdev.    39,    40,    48,   50.   61,    130,    137, 

U;-5.  h4,  185,  200. 
Bermuda  Hundred,  129. 
Eerr..ard.  7,  31,  32,  75,  93. 
Be->lnn,  252. 
Bevc-rlv    (Beverley),   8,    18,  40,  61,   133, 

27o. 
B;  kle.',  189. 
Biao.  31 
B-nd^im    161. 
Bipj-]  y.  31. 
Birn-;.  l.-l,  164,  193. 
Bird.  7-,  S,  163,  184,  192. 
Birch.  262. 

Black,  U,  17,  148-150. 
BU-kbura,  48,  201. 

B'.-cvstCuie,  37.  l- 

F'..!:-:weU,-200. 
B"  ■■izravc.  2,  5. 
Bi-  iKiey/  190. 
BI  .ir,   1.  3,  4,  5,  8.  14,  15,  36,  40.  137, 

-r-.o,  106,  167,  170,  171,  186,  187,  189, 

D  '•<•*,  250,  251. 
■      "  baid,  222. 

i.  14,  30,  34,  35,  99,  128,  183,  185, 
-■   .  2ol. 

■      f  .id  Church,  67. 
:  '-Old,  17,  147,  150,  169,  191. 

■■■■'m:,  126. 
---.  194. 

N-n-hip,  92. 

,   161, 
c.   199. 

-.  T08. 

T^ /brook.'-  36,  128. 

■  -■  4,  5,'  6^  28,   36,   71,  91.  97,   99, 
-    ^n,  277. 
:'.   126. 
■irant,  31. 
i^''t,  207. 
hor,  27H. 
•  f.  2.5^. 

Bowthe),   30..  81,   138,   164,   165, 


)'  .. . 

Bvn:; 


Booton,  103. 

Bordland,  86. 
liorou;_4i9,  65. 
Borrughs,  64. 

Bostan  (Boostar.,  Bustan),  232,  234,  2:35 
BosoTi,  5. 

Bosvvell,  48,  54,  55,  57,  60,  62. 
Botetourt,  33. 
Boucher,  223. 
Bourne,  253,  255. 
Bowden,  3. 
Bowen,  34,  253,  255. 
Bowles,  95, 
Bowman,  231. 
Bowrv,  195. 
Boyd,"  191. 
Boyse,  229, 
Bracken,  76, 
Bradby,  111,  151. 
Bradbury,  184, 
Braddock,  GO, 
Bradford,  277. 
Braderton,  161, 

Bradley   (Bradly),  14,  184,  194,  26G. 
Bradv,  164. 
Bradshaw,  93,  94,  106. 
Braffevton,  128. 
Branch,   126. 
Brandon,  28,  40,  121. 
Brand\"vvine,  63. 
Brathwaitch    (Brathwate),  192. 
Braxton,  36,  55.  60. 
Brav,  14,  111,  228,  220,  261,  277. 
Brent,  23,  24,  118. 
Brennus,  140. 
Brereton,  25,  26. 
Brereton's  Neck,  81. 
Brerey,  69. 
Bretton,  205. 
Brewer,  13. 
Brewster,  136. 
Brians,  31. 

Bridgar  (Bridger),  42,  110,  111,  132. 
Brigham,  279. 
Bright,  261, 
Brig.s,  161.  162. 
BrissrA  de  Warvxlle,  41,  80. 
Bristol  Parish  Vestry  Book,  183. 
Bristol  Parish  Register.  82,  147,  183. 
Bristol  Parish,  147,  183. 
Bristol  College,  250. 
Brocas,  257. 
Brock,  i7. 
Brodie,  58,  275. 
""Broadway,"  97. 
Bronfield,  95. 
Brooke,  128,  1'29.  276. 
Brooks,  108,  125,  143,  202. 
Brown    (Browne),    5,   27,    95.    123.    12' 
130,  134,  161,  163.  164,  167,  171.  IS-! 
109.  213,  240,  26:\  27: 


188,  194,  lO; 
276. 


rui 


INDEX. 


Brown's  First  Republic,  130. 

Bruton  Parish,  37,  105,  261. 

Bruton  Church,  23!). 

Bryan,  16,  130,  189. 

Bryant,  64. 

Bryce   (Brice),  92. 

Buchanan,  12,  201. 

Buck,  184. 

BuckJand,  1. 

Buckner,  "167. 

Buffin,  193,  268. 

Buford,  223.     _ 

Bullington,  194. 

Bullman,  248. 

Bullock's  History  of  Virginia,  273. 

Bullock.  273 

Bull,  219. 

-Bull  Field,"  126. 

Bunell,  163. 

Burchen,  1C3. 

Burden,  96. 

Burgess'  Store,  44. 

Burgess    (Burges),  93,  163.  , 

Burgesses,   House   of,   3,    11,    12,    33,   79, 
110,  174,  177,  183,  228,  259,  264,  269. 

Burke,  83,  248,  271. 

Burke's  General  Armory,  71. 

Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  11. 

Burke's   Extinct   and  Dormant  Baronet- 
age, 97. 

Burnaby's  Travels   in  America,  41. 

Burnside,  139. 

Burrowe,  174. 

Burt,  61,  261. 

Burton,  194. 

Burwel'l,  1,  3.  4.  6,  11,  36,  39,  55,  56.  61, 
m,  154,-160,  189,  191,  261,  263,  264. 

Bur^vell's  Bay,  189. 

Busbv,  162. 

Bush'  184. 

Bushell,  162. 

*'Bushileld,"  46. 

*'Bushv  Park,"  47,  48.  49. 
-Bushrod,  32.  46,  203,  228,  229,  257. 

Butcher,  184. 
'Butler,  75,  161,  166. 

Byrd.   154,  166,  170,  183,  189,  190,  211, 
261. 

Cabell,  157,  158,  167,  209,  215,  227,  246, 
247. 

Cahells  and  Their  Kin,  269. 

Caldwell,  184,  270. 

Calendar  of  Virginia  State  Papers,-  269. 

Calhoun,  226. 

Calir^ch,  235. 

Callaway,  223. 

Calle,  263.  '^^^ 

Calniie*.   13.  '' 

Calvet,  32. 

Calvert,   185. 

Cnheriey,  69. 

Cambridge,  09,  82,  158,  157. 


50, 
174. 
70. 


122, 


Campbell's  History  of  Virginia,  12S,  I'il. 

Campbell,  103,  189. 

Camp,  17,  55,  57,  61. 

Camm,  246,  247. 

Cannon,  75,  95. 

Capeliart,  66. 

Capitol  Landing,  4. 

Capitol,  138. 

Cardenpaine,  164. 

Carrel.  10,  11. 

Carlisle,  13. 

Carney,  64. 

Carpenter,   30,   163. 

Carr,   79,    106.    107,    108,    130,    iJl.    132. 

197,  198,  271. 
Carroll,  92.  ■ 

Carter,  8,  9.   16,   17,   18,  32,  33.   49. 

76,    79,    82,    120,    154.    155,    157, 

177,  189,  190,  193,  106,  202.  203,  2 
•'Carter  ^all,"  263. 
Carthrage,  163. 
Cartwright,  184. 
Cary,  1,  12,  16,  55,  61,  69,  106.  120. 

130,  155,  163,  203,  255,  250,  263. 
Carvbrook,  120. 
Case,  163. 
Cass,  277. 
Catchings,  208. 

Catlett  (Catlet),  .59,  60,  62,  90,  165,  •-Di. 
Canfield,  132,  161. 
Cansby,  164. 

Cavallo's  Philosophy,  220. 
Cavalier,  184, 
Cawthorn,  96. 
Cay,  188. 

•"Cedar  Grove,"  127. 
Chambon,  31. 
Chambers.  161. 

Chamberlayne,  82,  171,  178,  182.  Iv  ' 
Champarty,  6. 
Chance,  198,   199. 
Chancey,  196. 
Chancellor,  34. 
Chandler,  195. 
Chaplain,  104. 
Chapman.  270,  277. 
Charles,  85,  257, 
Charles  Citv  County  Pecords,   124     i03 

266,  267." 
Chastain,  31, 

•'Chatsworth,"  28,  36,  120. 
"Cherry  Bottom,'"  73.  123. 
"Cherry  Grove,"  127. 
Cherry  Poipt.  47. 
Cherokees,  9,  11.  12,  13. 
Cheros,  163. 
Chicacoham.  44. 
Chichelev,  185,  186. 
Chiles,  105,  106,  108. 
Chilton,  82. 
Chiphead,  167. 
Chiskiack,  37. 


INDEX. 


IX 


Chiswell,  30. 

Chi  tower,  121. 

Christian,  4,  62,  70-74,  122-128,  193,  194, 

105,  2U.5-271. 
Christ  Church,  48. 
Church,   184. 

Churchill,  0,  30,  47,  50,  55,  200-202. 
Clack,  2,  57. 

Claiborne,  147,  190,  191,  269. 
Claremont,  112,  113,  132. 
Clarke    (Clark),  79,  91,  92,  93,  95,   100. 

101,  102,  104,  161,  162,   193,  194,  195, 

201. 
Clarkson,  92. 
Clary,  101. 

Clay,  142,  143,  IGl,  273,  274. 
Clayton,  49,  124,  195. 
Clealand,  259. 
Cleaver,  60. 
Clemens,  164. 
Clement-,  91,  92,  170. 
Clendenin,  203. 
"Cleve,"  49.  . 
Clopton,  94. 
Clouer,  245. 
Cluverius,  55,  56. 
Coalter,  153,  154,  156,  157. 
Cobbs,  5. 
Cocke  (Cock),  4.  Ill,  147,  151.  154,  177,! 

190,  197,  200,  267. 
Cockersham,  161,  162. 
Codd   (Cod),  25,' 267. 
Cods  Creek.  43, 
Coke,  231. 
Colclough,  24. 
Cole,  1,  3,  5.  6.  57.  262. 
Colemai^,  57,  93,  135,  138,  153,  275. 
Coleraine,  174. 
Coles,  6,  27,  158.  160. 
College  of  South  Carolina,  153,  226. 
ColHer  (Collver),  122,  124,  125,  163,  184, 

202-203,   255-257. 
Collins,  82,  130,  196. 
Cfdlins'  Peerage,  148. 
Cdlis,  202. 
CoNton,  18. 
Cohard,  95.- 
f'onttntrce,  The,  41 
Coti'.vay,  8-^,  96,  07. 
^  intention,  122. 

<V.ok   (Cooke),  1S4,  200,  205,  276. 
(.'uokson,  3. 
Co4ili(igp,   120. 
"C<»1  Well,"  205,  267. 
CooiK-^r,   159,  259. 
Coj.MJand,  184,  204. 
Corljju,  5,  10,  186. 
Corder,   103. 
Corke,  ir.l. 
Corker,  152,  164. 
Curr.i-h.   162. 
CurnwalU-,   34. 


Cornwall   (Cornewall),  111,  161. 
Cosby,  37,  91,  94. 
Cotton,  34,  61. 

Court  and  City  Register,  172. 
Coutts,  189. 
Cowles,  262,  275. 
Cox,  47. 

Craddock,  170,   195. 
Craford,  162. 
Craig,  259,  262. 
"Craighton,-"'  266. 
Cragball,  95. 

Crawley,  lOS-110,  261,  262. 
Creed.  103. 
Crenshaw,  126,  132. 
Creswell,  1. 
Crew,  195.  ^^ 

Crewes,  244.  ^^^ 
Crisp,  192. 
Crittenden,  102,  141. 
Critic,  — . 
Cromwell,  33. 
Crooks,  190. 
Crosby  (Crosbie),  1,  3. 
Croshaw,  230. 
Crouch,  91.- 
Crow,  93. 
Crump,  125,  220. 
Crump's  Creek,  105. 
Crutchfteld,  2,  92,  194,  2j0,  251.  ^^ 
Cryer,  169. 
Cunningham,  64. 
Curd.  95. 
Curie,  12,  68. 
Curies,  190. 
Curran,  275. 
Currv   (Currie).  7,  35. 
Curtis,  79,  92,  ilS,  197,  20v. 
Custis,  6,  7,  12,  14,  223. 
"Cvpress  Farm.''  45. 
Dabuey,  55,  58,'  60,  62,  92,  93,  107,  1&3. 
"249. 
Dade,  205. 
Daes,  206. 

Daingerfield,  96.  100,  111,  183. 
Dale,  151. 
Dalgleish,  190. 
Dalston,  171, 
Dancy,  1:^6,  127.  195. 
Dandridge,  63,  So,  191,  271. 
Dandall."  184. 
Daniel,  121.  195.  265. 
Darnal,  274. 

Davenport,  12,  94,  153,  189,  252. 
David,  3L 
David,  The,  23. 
Davies,  166,  167,  267. 
Davis'  Trck-els  in  the  77.  5'.,  232. 
Davis,  6.  37.  Co,  95,   102,   106,   139,  164, 

184,  215,  270. 
Davison,  95. 
Daw,  37,  iOG. 


I-VDEX. 


Dawson,  2,  9,  10,  14,  271. 

Day,  106,  194. 

Deadman,  187. 

Deane,  2fjl,  262. 

Deans,  100. 

De  Bow's  Review,  274. 

De  la  ware,  70,  2o7. 

Delawafer,  100. 

Delke,  102. 

De  Luz,  l54. 

Dennis,  103,  194. 

Depp,  271. 

Derby,  50,  200. 

Desasy,  32. 

"Devil's  Woodyard  Swamp,"  152. 

De  Vries,  83. 

De  Warville,  80. 

Dick,  198. 

Dieken,  106. 

Dickens,  32. 

Diekerson,  209. 

Dickinson,  201. 

Dictionary  of  National  Biography,  34. 

Diorges    (Diggs),  29,   185,   187,  203,  255, 

vol,  2H'l. 
Dillon,  122. 
Dimond,  2,  4. 

Dinwiddie,  6,  8,  12,  13,  14,  15,  16.  17,  36. 
Diskin,  18. 
Dinguid.  124,  268. 
Dixon,  27,  68,  85,  172,  188. 
Dolores,   102. 
Donny,  171. 
Doode,  247. 

Doodes,  196,  197,  198,  199,  247,  248,  249. 
Dorsev,  106. 
Doswell,  126,  127. 

Douglas  (Douglass),  71,  123,  127,  231. 
Draper,  37. 
Drew-,  162. 
Dromwright,  92. 
Dudley,  195. 
Duke/ 17. 
Dumminger,  245. 
Dunbar,  215. 
"Dungeness,"   122. 
Dunk,'  17*7. 

Dunlop  (Dunlap),  61,  189. 
Dunn,  5. 

Dunseorab,  268,  269. 
Dunston,  lol. 
Dupuy,  31. 
•Durrett,  103. 

Duval,  1-i,  125,  U6,  268,  269. 
Owight.  225. 
^'\  133. 
'^    161. 

Eato.       /l27,  257. 
Kdloe,   ill,  112,  113,  114.  195-261. 
Edge  Hill.  120,  121,  122. 
±.dnions,  31. 


Elwards,  56,  60-02,  100,  151,  170,  186. 

Liles,  119. 

Elligood,  275. 

Ellis,  31,  91,  95,  108,  100,  162,  163,  190, 
27.5. 

Elizabeth,  Queen,  00. 

Ellyson,  189.  228. 

"Eltham,"  97. 

Elton  head,  97. 

Emerson,  163. 

Ennes,  88. 

"Enquirer,"  220,  221. 

Eppes  (Epes),  121,  122,  129,  194,  238, 
275,  276. 

Essex  County  Records,  18,  99. 

"Essex  Lod^ 

Eshon,  195. 

Eskridge,  253. 

Esther,  190. 

Ethridge,  267. 

Eustace,  189. 

Evans    (Evens),  164.  195. 

Everard,  2,  17,  177. 

Ewens,  164. 

Fairbain's  Crests  of  England  and  Ire- 
land, 72. 

Fairbanks,  59. 

Fairfax,  6,  12,  13,  15,  09,  87. 

ffairfields,  25. 

Fanning,  155. 

Farcy,  31. 

Farish,  13. 

Farley,  189. 

Farmer,  267. 

Farrar,  92,  94,  95.  96. 

Fauntleroy,  30,  40,  98. 

Faurd,  31. 

Fauquier,  29,  30,  159,  171-177. 

Fawkes,  69. 

Fawn,  133. 

Featherstone,  64. 

Fergusson  (Ferguson),  125,  175. 

Fields,  10. 

Field,  4,  5,  6,  10. 

Filmer,  211. 

Finch,  195. 

Finnic,  9,  137,  187,  262. 

Fiske,  228. 

Fitzhugh.  200. 

Fleete   (Fleet),  24,  97. 

Fleming,  5,  27.  , 

Fletcher,  184. 

Flood  (fflood),  101,  163,  166. 

Flournoy,   32. 

Folkes,  94,  125. 

Folsom,  206. 

Fountaine,  50,  120. 

Foote,  273,  274. 

Force's  Tracts,  61. 

Ford,  93,  136,  137. 

Foreman,  163. 

Forsteraft,  163. 


I 

m3 


INDEX. 


XI 


Fnstpr,  164,  184. 

Fotset,  105. 

Foiiace,  170. 

Fowkc  (Ffowke),  23. 

Fox,  07,  108-110. 

liriuifis,  162. 

Franklin,  231-236,  247. 

Frayser   (Frasierj,  69,  152. 

Freeman,  61,  193. 

Friend,  202. 

Frithian,  76. 

Froggett,  103. 

Frost,  250. 

Fry,  1,  9,  47. 

Furbush,  164. 

Fuqua,  270. 

Gaines,  28,  64. 

Gale,  261. 

Galer,  103. 

Gait,  223,  259-262. 

Gambler,  227. 

Gardner   (Gardiner),  4,  134. 

Garland,  107. 

Garner'3  Creek.  45. 

Garner,  109,  110. 

Garnett,  253,  254. 

Garney,  102. 

Garrett,  259,  279. 

Gathright,  193. 

Gatschel,  278. 

Gay,  266. 

Geddy,  11. 

Genealogical  Tahle,  172. 

George,  93,  95,  101,'  102,  104. 

Gentleman's  Magazine,  172. 

Ghiselin,  274,  275. 

Gibson,  164. 

Gilbert,  2. 

Giles,  261,  262. 

Gilliam,  181,  182,  266. 

Gill,  44. 

Gilmer,  2,  3,  4.  10,  14,  15.  16,  17,  137. 

Girault,  102. 

Glass,  103,  270. 

•iih-be,"  12,  45. 
<ilen   (Glenn),  13,  56. 
<nou<'ester  Place.  60,  62. 
G-Hison.  184. 
<n>UUmith,  237. 
GoM>borough,  276. 
Goovh.  6,  13,  272. 
<M>o<ial|.  132. 

GnrKio,  30,   157 

CJ<juulo<>,    103.  » 

<u'<Mlri<'h,  1C5. 

^IcM'dwjn,  211.  ^ 

Goo-Iev,  3. 

<.;or.l.   HJ2. 

Gordon,  29,  48,  40,  91,  189. 

(MjriniT.  i62. 

GiMy/3!. 

Gruh-iin.  41. 


Grammar  School,  252. 

Grammer,  133. 

Grant,  140. 

Grattan's  Reports,  133. 

Graves,  39,  105,  100,  124,  271. 

Gray,  151,  163,  186. 

Gray's  Ferry,  26. 

Gray's  Creek,  151. 

Gregory,    161,    184,    189,    191,    193,    194, 

195,  190. 
Greene   (Green),  55.  61,  91,  92,  96,  136, 

161,  162,  104,  184,  210,  211,  271. 
Green  Branch,  61. 
Greenhow,   153. 

-Green  Spring,^'  39,  130,  185,  186,  261. 
"Greenway,"  56,  62. 
Green  Yard,  267. 
Griffin,  14,  189.  215. 
Griffith   ( Griff eth),  22,  23,  184,  202. 
Griggs,  100. 
Grinnan,  136. 
Grove,  161,  162. 
Grvmes    (Grimes),  5,   8,   10,  29,   40,  50, 

55,  58,  61,  265. 
Guerrant,  31. 
Gulistan,  232. 
Gurley,  188. 
Guy,  108. 
Gwatkin,  272. 
Gwyn,  18. 
Gyles,  161. 
Ha  eke,  237. 
Hackley,  120,  253. 
Haddon,  203. 
Hadlev,  167,  169. 
Hail,  275. 
Hailey,  106. 
Hainil,  277. 
Haines,  277. 
Hairston,  50,  62. 
Hakacet,  232. 
Hale,  163. 
Halket,  189. 
Hallam,  138,  237,  238.  239.  241,  242.  243, 

244,  245. 
Halleck,  139. 
Hall,  130,  180,  193. 
HalFs,  59. 
Hallowes,  184. 
Hallyburton,  127. 

Hamilton,  40,  104,  138.  , 

Hamlet,   194. 

Hampden-Sidney,  64,  126,  227. 
Hampton,  12. 
Hanburv,  5,  12. 

Hancock  (Hancocke),  92,  90,  162,  200. 
Hankins,  127. 
Hanover  Town,  3. 
Hansford    (Hansfevd),  202. 
Hansil,  195. 
Hardaway,  256. 
Hardiman,  126. 


ill 


INDEX. 


Harding,  47,  75. 

Harden ty's  History,  125. 

Hard^-raan,  194,  2G1. 

Hare,  IGl,  215,  227. 

Harlield,  14. 

Harlow,   164. 

Harmar,  231. 

Haruianson,  237. 

Harpny,  184. 

Harrington,  232. 

Harrington  s  Works  of  Sddee,  234. 

Harris    (Ihiris),  31,  32,  01,  93,  94^  101, 

184,  2G0. 
Harrison,  14,  28,  36,  48,  50,  56,  04,  07, 

102,  111,  112,  121,  122,  125,  142,  1G2, 

108,  170,  179,  183,  193,  256,  264,  205. 
Hart,  250,  251. 
Harveild,  277. 
Harvie    (Harvey),  184,  220. 
Harwood,  37,  153,  193. 
Hatcher,  91,  95. 
Hatley,  6. 
Hawes,  124. 
Hawkes,  184. 
Hawiev.  24. 
Hay,  159. 

Harden,  48,  97,  200. 
Havden's    Virginia  Genealogies,  79,  205, 

2*70. 
Haynes,  193. 
Haynie,  42. 
Haywood,  58. 
Havward,  61. 
Hazlett,  208. 
Heath,  162. 
Heber,  233. 
Heggans,  103. 

Heitman's  Register,  123,  256. 
Henderson,  135. 
Hendren,  127,  128,  266. 
Hendriken,  5,  II. 
Hening,  33,  84,  105,  248. 
Hening's  Statutes  at  Large  of  Va.,  105, 

183,  196,  249,  256,  209. 
Henley,  76,  220, 
Henry,  66,  100,  123,  172,  226. 
Henr'y,  The,  23. 
Herbert,  145-148. 
Herndon,  91,  95,  198. 
Heywood,  122. 
Hicks,  93,  250. 
Hickman,  203. 

Hili,  40.  106,  135,  102.  104,  171,  256,  257. 
Hilliard,  193. 
Hinde,  65. 
Hinson,  166. 
HiK,  03. 
Hobdav,  55,  61. 


Hob>on 


,  .io,  'i6. 


Hockuday,  22S,  229. 
Hode,  162. 
Hodges,  93. 


Hodgson,  205. 
Hodskins,  184. 
Hogan,  28. 
Hog  Neck,  4. 
Holbrook,  92. 
Holdcroft,  228. 
Holdrich,  184. 
Holdsworth,   194,  195. 
Holeman,  31. — 
Holland,  94. 
Holliday,  121,  208. 
l-Iolliinan,  101. 
Hollingsworth,  253. 
j  Holmes,  223. 

Holt,  4,  5,  8,  10,  101,  102,  277. 
Homer,  154. 
Honey,  202. 
Hood,  232. 
Hooper,  66. 
Hooton,  103. 
Hope.  129,  257-258. 
Hopkins,  90,  190,  201. 
Hopper,  91. 
Hord,  108,  132. 
Horner,  217. 
Hornsby,  3,  130,  153. 
Horst,  270. 
Houchens,  91. 
Houghton,  138. 
House,  163. 
Howe,  34. 

Howard,  50,  01,  03. 
Howel   (Howell),  0,  111,  104,  237. 
Howgood.  103. 
Hewlett,  195. 
Howie,  125. 
Howson,  25,  26. 
Hubbard,  121,  155. 
Hudnall,  43. 
Hudson,  94. 
Hughes,  9. 
Hulets,  16.' 
Hull,  43. 

Hull's  Creek,  44.  46. 
Hume  (Home),  84,  91,  205,  206.  _. 
Humphreys,  75. 

Hunicut  (Hunnicut),  161,  162,  193.. 
Hunny,  261.  : 

Hunt.  37,  116.  117,  118,  119,  132.  "^ 
Hunter,  1,  2,  h,  11,  12,  86,  87,  89,  274. 
Hurle,  164. 
Hutcheson,  126. 
Hutchins,  93. 

Hutchinson,  250,  263,  264. 
Hux,  163,  104. 
Indians,  9,  10.  11,  12,  23,  24,  25,  26,  27 

123,  128,  134,  152,  160,  165,  185,  277. 
Ingle,  74. 

Ingles,  14.  169,  170. 
Innis,  261. 
irby,  270. 
Ireland,  124,  125. 


INDEX. 


XUl 


Ironmonger  (Munger),  164,  211. 

Irwin,  loD. 

l^bell,  95. 

Jiukman,  132. 

Jack-j^on,  4,  5,  G,  8,  9,  10,  11,  12,  5G,  62, 

l;}i),  140,  142,  193,  194,  195. 
Jiime.^on    (Jamison),    3,    188,    189,    194, 

251,  257. 
James  (Jeams),  34,  74,  211,  279. 
Jamestown  Church  Service,  274. 
Jamestown,  1.  2,  7,  31,  37,  130,  137,  222, 

238,  274,  275. 
Jarratt   (Jarrett),  93,  95,  101,  104,  108, 

120,  121,  122,  141,  142,  1G2. 
Jarrett,  162., 
Jefferson.  47,  81,  82,  101,  104,  108,  120, 

122,  141,   142,  158,  159,  1G7,  172,  250. 

2G8,  275,  279. 
JetFerson's  Works,  137. 
Jefferson  Memoirs,  121. 
JelFerys,  170. 
Jenkins,  GS,  193. 
Jennings    (Jenings),  4,   11,   13,   99,   171, 

183,  185,  204,  264. 
Jerdone,  40,  123,  190. 
Jessups,  112. 
Joanes,  162,  163,  164. 
Johnson    (Johnston),  1,  2,  5,  14,  30.  92, 

93,  94,  95,  96,  98,  162,   190,  193,   104, 

197,  201,  205,  274. 
Jones'    Present    ^tate    of    Virginia,    39, 

211. 
-Jones,  2,  6,  15,  39,  48,  49,  5Q.  64,  65.  66. 

69,  75,  103,  126,  136,  184,  191-192,  198, 

210,  211,  270. 
Jordan,  161,  162,  163,  166,  193.    — ^ 
Jordan's,  30. 
Jouett,  95. 
Judson,  102. 
Juxon,  211. 
i\uy,  65. 
K»^'in,  121. 
Keiths  Ancestry  of  Benjamin  Harrison, 

56. 
Keeling,  2,  275. 
K.ene,  45,  46,  261. 
Kidlar,  102. 

K»>mpe  (Kerap),  184,  185,  277. 
Kemiall,  GO,  103,  187. 
Kt-nner,  lOS-HO. 
KtiMion,  12S,  154. 
Kenny.  U).i.  ' 
K'  i.t,  2»)8,  279. 
Kerr,  17,  190. 
Kt-rno^ir,  95, 
Kf-lier.  9.5. 
KkIJ,  190. 
Kie-^'an,  228. 
Kilhy.  262. 
Kil Patrick,   IG2. 
jtvimU  11.  {\:\.  G4. 
Kin'-ived,  102. 


King's  Mountain,  201. 

King's  Mill,  261. 

Kingston,  81. 

Kingston  Parish,  67,  123. 

King,    1,    4,    10,    1.3,    14,    16,    79,    135, 

163. 
Kippin,  163. 
Kiskiack,  273. 
Kite,  163. 
Knight,  25,  26,  51,  52,  53,  116,  119,  1C3, 

189. 
Knowles,  69. 
linox,  104. 

Lacy,  129,  193,  194,  267. 
La  Fayette,  125,  261. 
Lamb,  70,  195,  266. 


Li 


>50., 


Landon,  9. 

Lane  (Laine).  10,  161,  162,  170,  201. 

Langburne,   189. 

Laprade,  93. 

J^athrie,   162. 

Laurel  Hill,  198. 

JLawnes  Creek,  liO. 

Lawrence,  264. 

Lawson,  193. 

Layton,  49. 

Leach,  193. 

Leake,  92,  108. 

Leam.  103. 

Lear,  171. 

"Lebanon,"  265. 

Lee,    5,    32,    34,    35,    46,    65.    66,    84.  93. 

136,  139,  140,  143,  160,  18-5,  187,  202, 

261. 
Lee  of  Virginia,  202. 
l.ee  Hall,  35. 
Lefrane,  194. 
Le  Grande,  126,  163, 
Leheup,  7,  10. 
Lenox,  6. 
Leonard,  195. 
Leseur   (Le  Seur),  31,  32. 
Levillian,  31. 
Levingston,   137. 
Llewellin    (LeAvellin,   Lewelling,    Llewel- 

ling),  148.  237,  238,  239,  240.  241,  2-12, 

244,  245. 
Lewis,  2,  4,  10,  16,  SO,  37,  62.  63,  64,  79. 

91,  92,  93.  98,  120,  122,  136.  155,  163, 

198,  201.  223,  261. 
■Libortv  Hall.*'  253. 
Lightfoot,  27,  40,  111,  112,  190,  192. 
Lillicrop,  161. 
Lillv,  50. 

Lincoln,  44,  138,  139,  143,  144. 
Lippincott,  232. 
J^itchfield,  258. 
Little.  122. 
Littleberry,  238. 
Littlepage',  182. 
Littlepages,  4. 


XIV 


INDEX. 


Littleton,  .30,  130,  230,  231. 

Lockey,  202,  203,  25.5,  256. 

Loraax.  186. 

Long,  4,  161,  271. 

Longstreet,  140. 

Lored,   103. 

Lowei-  Chippoakes  Creek,  110. 

Lowry,  55. 

Loyd  (Lloyd),  11,  IS,  29,  195,  229. 

Liickin,  105. 

Ludlow  (Liidlowe),  9,  228. 

Ludwell,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10,  14,  1.5,  17,  28,  170, 

185,  186. 
Limn,  262. 
Lunsford,  183-186. 
Lyde  ( Lide ) ,  4,  5. 
Lyell,  126. 

Lyson's  Environs  of  London,  172. 
Mac'hoatick  Indians,  24. 
Machen,  55. 
Macklin.  2. 
Macon,  192,  228. 
Madden,  205,  206. 
Maddox,  92,  193. 
Maderia  Packet,  28. 
Madison,  62,  98,  136,  155,  156,  157,  159, 

202,  213,  220,  221,  222,  223. 
Madley,  184. 
Magget,  163. 
Mahaney,  195. 
Mahoatick,  24. 
Maboney,  103. 
Maldhone,  184. 
Maidstone,  184. 
Major,  194. 
Mallorv,  93,  262,  277. 
Mansfield, -2. 
Mannington,  263. 
Mantle,  92. ' 
March,  164. 
Marion,  208. 

Mark,  218,  219,  220,  221. 
MavJborouirh,  30,  204. 
Marrable,  l93. 
Marriott,  152.  101,  164. 
Marshall,  29,  184. 
Marston,  194,  196. 
Martin,  92,  Q6.  132,  133.  193,  195. 
Mason,  121,  152,  213,  220,  238,  239,  240, 

241,  244,  277. 
Massie,  94,  95. 
Mas?onburg,  262. 
:Mathew,  26. 
Mathewes   (Matthews,  Mathews),  25,  33, 

94,  95,  192.  193,  257. 
Matoax,  180. 
Matlhis,   103. 
Muttrome,  25,  26. 
Maupin,  154,  155,  259. 
Maiitv,  17,  136,  188,  249. 
Mavvde,  69. 
Maynurd,  193,  194,  195. 


Mayo,  91,  95. 

Mayor,  121.  , 

Mazzei,  279. 

McBride,  05. 

McCandlish,  275. 

McCarty,   19. 

McClennahan,  274. 

McClellan,  139,  140. 

McClurg,  172. 

McCoy,  93. 

McCrary,  92. 

McCreery,  201. 

McCue,  108. 

McDowell.  139,  223,  224,  226,  227. 

McGuire,  1,  2. 

McKenzie,  10,  15,  16,  17,  150. 

McLaughlin,  140,  141,  142,  143,  144. 

McMacklin,  2. 

McNaiighton,  45. 

McPheeters,  156. 

Meade's  did  Families,  Etc..  80,  274. 

Meade  (Mead).  30,  274,  275. 

Meanley,  92.  271. 

Mecklin,  1. 

Sleeks.  93. 

Meherrin  Church,  187. 

Meikelhara.  121. 

Menlol,  184. 

Menzies,  15 

Mercer,  31. 

Meredith,  98,  257.--'^ 

Meriwether  (Meriweather) ,  99,  100,  103, 

121,  136,  163,  249,  277. 
Merrv,  193. 

Mickieborough.  197,  199.  200. 
Middleton  (Midleton^  69,. 162. 
Middle  Plantation,  37. 
Middlesex  County  Records,  97. 
Middlesex  Parish  Register,  186,  196. 
Middle  Quarter,  120.'^ 
Mifflin,  138. 
Mihill,  203,  255,  256. 
Milbv,  126. 
Miles,  194,  196. 
Millar.  154. 
Millard,  184. 
Miller,  128,  268. 

Mills,  134,  164.  191,  208,  209,  275. 
Mimms,  91,  93. 
Minge,  124.  105,  256,  266. 
Minor,  (Miner,  Meinheer,  ^lindort).  107, 

108,    130,    131,    132,    196-200,    247-251, 

266. 
Minson,  19-^. 
Mischannv,  163. 
Mitchell, '91,  196. 
Mizell,  164." 
Mock  Jack  Bay,  203, 
Monroe,  32.  274. 
Montague,  106,  197,  198,  200. 
Monussacomen.  24. 
Moody,  16,  30,  175,  193,  261,  262. 


INDEX. 


XV 


Moore,  43,  44,  65,  66,  172,  221,  261. 
Moidecai's  Richmond  in  By  Gone  Days, 

269. 
Morecock,  193,  195. 
Morer,  229. 
Morgan,  25,  14S,  202. 
Morgan's  Plantation,  202,  203. 
Morning,  163. 
Morris,   63,   64,   83,    120,    126,    134,    135, 

195,  209. 
Morribania,  83,  120. 
Morton,  26,  27. 
Moseley,  40,  97. 
Mossom,  8. 

Moss,  65,  94,  133,  211. 
Mouatt   (Monatt),  41. 
Moulson,  163. 
"Mountain  View,"  268. 
Mountcastle,  193. 
"Mouutcastles,"  125,  268. 
Mt.  Airv,  40. 
Muir,  3,  4.  5. 
Mullikin,  169. 
Mullins.  91. 
MuUes,  93. 

Munford,  153,  154,  155,  157. 
Murray  (:^iurrey).  56,  162. 
Murphey,  103. 
Muschamp,  171. 
Muscoe,  IS. 
I^Iyers,  20S. 
Kancemond,  4. 
Nance,  276. 
Nances  Neck,  14. 
Napkin,  162. 
Nas«tau  Hall,  33,   153. 
^'atio}wl  Dictionary  of  Biography.  172. 
Nealand  (Neiiand).  5,  14. 
Neill    (Neale),  17,  264. 
Neill's  Yirqinia  Carolorum,  184,  257. 
Nelson,  4.  5.   7,  8,  9.   10,  13.   15,  40,  80, 

155,  174,  177,  189,  195,  261,  276. 
Nettmaker,  229. 
Neves,  92. 
Neville,  1S4. 
Nevi.-on,  187. 
New  Castle,  3. 
Newell,  229. 

y^ic  En'yland  Historical  and  Genealogi- 
cal Register,  202,  223.  230. 
A'cic  Asiatic  Miscellany,  232. 
New  Pocosin  Parish,  37,  276. 
Newport.  79. 
Newit,  163. 
Nibley,  lt)4. 
NicliJus,  8,   12,  37,   120,   189,  201,  215, 

2()5. 
Nicholson.  167,  261.  v 

Nickson,  39. 
Nigliiinuale,  91. 

**Niuhtini:ule  of  a  Thousand  Sonsrs."  232 
Niniriiu.  hiO,  274,  275. 
Nimrod,  236. 


Noland,  200. 

Nornini  Hall,  76. 

Noniony,  9. 

Norfolk  County  Antiquary,  274. 

Norfolk  County  Records,  196. 

Norman,  197. 

North,  164. 

Northumberland  House,  43. 

Northumberland  County  Records,  24. 

Norton,  184. 

Norvell,  277. 

Norwood,  163. 

Nott,  24. 

Nottowavs,  11. 

Nowlin,  91,  125. 

Nuckolls,  92. 

"Oak  Hill,"  181,  183. 

Oberry,  162. 

Ogle,  13. 

O'llarrone,  103. 

Oldest  Biick  House,  151.  152. 

Old  Virginia  and  Her  Xeighbors,  228. 

Oldham,  201. 

Old  Pocosin  Creek,  37. 

Opechancanough.  61.  130. 

Opie,  109.  110^. 

Orange  County  Records,  276. 

Orchard,  163." 

O'Reilv,  208. 

Orgain,  111,  112.  114.  115. 

Osborne.  Ill,  114. 

Otey,  194,  250. 

Overton,  107. 

Owen,  25.  26,  163,  272. 

Owlis,  162. 

"Oxon  Hall."  108. 

Oxford,  82. 

Pace,  96,  163,  223. 

Pagan,  171. 

Pasfe's  Warehouse.  3. 

Page,  16.  29,  47.  55,  105,  172,  189,  195, 

211,  228,  264. 
Palace  Green.  17,  138. 
Palace,  17,  29,  175. 

Palmers  Calendar  of  State  Papers,  99. 
Palmer,  2,  3,  67,  91,  126,  269,  270,  277. 
Pamunkey  River,  3. 
Pankev,  95. 
Panniil,  250. 
Pantree,  31. 

Parable  of  the  Persecution,  231. 
Paradise,  261,  262. 
Parhcim.  269. 
Parke,  167.  185,  228. 
Parkesi  194. 
Parker,  198,  194,  268. 
Parkhill,  122. 

Parri^h    (Parish),  92,  93,  95,  194. 
Parsons.  8.  '^ 
Pasture,  155,  156. 
Pasteur,  261. 
Paterson,  40. 
Patrick,  66. 


XVI 


INDEX. 


Patteson,  125,  270. 

Patton  (Paton),  3,  1,  9,  11,  12,  14,  16. 
Payne,  27,  91,  92,  93,  94,  95,  90,  201. 
i  Peach,  164. 
■Pear  Tree  Hall,  69. 
'Pearman,  194. 
Peckatoan,  24. 
Peek,  25S. 
Peers,  93. 
Pelham,  1,  16. 
Pemberton,  3. 
Pence,  267. 
Pendleton,  103,  264. 
Pennsylvania,    Luiversity    of,    QQ,    213, 

250. 
Penny,  261. 
Pensax,  23. 
Pensix,  22. 
Perkins,  91,  94. 
Perkinson,  180. 
Pero,  32. 
Perrin,  56. 

Perry,  135,  167,  169,  170,  171,  273. 
Perrv'5  Historical  Collections,  83,  167. 
Petsworth  Parish,  57,  61. 
Petsworth  Church,  130. 
Petters,  162. 
')Peyto7i's  History,  123. 
/Phalby.  134,  135. 
Phillips    (Philleps,   Phillipps),   27,    108, 

162,  184,  194,  195,  229. 
Pickering,  69. 

Pierce    (Peirce),  124,  181,  184,  192,  268. 
Piersy,  257. 
Pilmore,  36.' 
Pipen,  57. 

Pitt  (Pit),  108,  162,  172,  261,  262.      . 
'  Pitman    (Pittmann,   Pittman),   36,    151. 

152,  161. 
'   Pitway,  164. 
Place,  164. 
Planey,  14. 
Plater,  13,  171. 

Pleasants,  92,  94,  95,  120,  122,  190,  266. 
Pledge,  91,  94. 
Pluine,  261. 
Plummer,  66. 
Plumry,  193. 
Pococke,  170. 

Pocositi  Parish  Register,  256. 
Poindexter,  125. 
Pointer,  94.  195. 
Pollard,  59,  60.  127. 
Poore  (Poor).  91,  95. 
"Poplar  Xeck,"  230. 
Pope,  69.  95. 

Portan  Eav  (Poetan,  Powhatan),  273. 
^'Porter  Hill,"  178. 
Porter,  31. 

'•Porto  P>ollo,''  187,  256. 
Poi  tens.  204.  205. 
Potonvack.  12,  23,  24. 
Potter,  164. 


Potts,  183. 

Powell,  91,  148,  191,  252,  260. 

Powers,  91. 

Power,  12,  256. 

Powhatan,  130. 

Powhatan  Swamp,  37,  130. 

Powhatan's  Tree,  133. 

Poythres,  14. 

Prentis,   1,  2,  6,  8,  10,  13,  30,   133,  261. 

262. 
Presley  (Presly),  2,  24,  25,  26,  43. 
Preston,  4,  6.  9,   15,  143,  214,  216,  217, 

218,  225,  226,  238,  239,  252,  265. 
Pride,  261. 
Princeton,  32,  33,  76,  15-3,  213,  214,  216, 

222,  223,  226,  227. 
Proby,  12. 
Proctor,  84,  132. 
Proffit,  95. 
Pryor,  59,  94,  229. 
Piiiett  (Pruitt),  95. 
"Piiddledock,"  147. 
Pulleyne.  69,  70. 
Purdie,  27.  36,  172,  188. 
Putnam,  13S. 
Queen  Victoria,  143. 
Quin,  35. 
Rachell,   162. 
Radford,  219,  221. 
Railey,  92,  94,  122.   -- 
Ramsey,  164. 
Randall,  184. 
Randolph,  3,  7,  8,  10,  11,  12.  28,  29,  36, 

40,  62,  75,  94,  95,  119,  122.  153,   154, 

155,  156,  174,  177,  ISO,  183,  194,  263, 

265. 
Randolph's  A'bridginents  of  the  yirginia 

Laics,  215. 
Randolph's  Reports,  265. 
Rapine,  31. 

Rappahannock  Records,  96. 
Ratclif,  194. 
Rawlings,  162. 
Rawlinger,  162. 

Reade   (Read),  67,  136,  190,  202. 
Redd,  94. 
Redford,  91.  96. 
Redicke,  161. 
Resran,  164. 
Reid.  1,  4,  213,  214,  216,  217,  218,  219, 


220,  221, 


23.  224,  225,  226.  : 


261. 
Reynolds,  162,  204.  262. 
Reynolds  Creek,  162. 
Rice,  181,  183. 

Richards,  1,  6.  92,  103,  170,  275. 
Richardson.  135. 
Riddell,  17. 
Riddle,  92,  94,  261. 
Riddick,  4. 
Riddlehurst,  196. 
Ridley,  277. 
RietstaiF,  134. 


fV. 


INDEX. 


XVll 


Rind,  153,  154,  173,  187. 

liippon,  187. 

Rippon  Hall,  230. 

River  Edge,  154. 

Rives,  17. 

Rixie.  65. 

Roach,  194. 

Robards,  94. 

Roberts,  102,  135,  184. 

Robertson,  187. 

Robins,  231. 

Robin's  Travels,  41. 

Robinson,  3,  20,  30,  31,  44,  48,  50,  61, 
09,   130,   132,   133,   151,   104,   189, 
199,  252,  253,  254,  255,  262,  276. 

Robson's  Bristol  Herald,  248. 

Rockahock,  37. 

Rodes,  96. 

Roers,  24,  25,  26,  45,  46,  100-104,  10 

Rogers,  24,  25,  26,  45,  46,  100-104, 
163. 

Rolfe,  152,  162. 

Rolfe's  Creek,  151. 

Roney,  181. 

Rookings,  163, 

Ropes,  63,  138,  139,  140,  144. 

Roper,  63,  195. 

Roscow,  1,  111. 

Rosecrans,  139. 

Rose,  22,  23,  163.  - 

"Rose  Garden.-'-*  232. 

"Rosegill,''  40,  48. 

Roundtree,  91,  261. 

Rosvland,  70. 

Rowsay,  261. 

Rowzee,  190. 

"Roxburv,'-'  125,  265,  268. 

Royall,  125,  270. 

Roy,  55,  60. 

Royster,  193. 

Rudiard,  148. 

Ruffin.  Ill,  120. 

Rutherford,  94. 

Sadi,  231,  232,  234,  235. 

Sainshury  MSS.,  61,  257,  273. 

Sakie,  4, 

Sallie.  31. 

Sallet,  31. 

f=^alley,  278. 

Salloway,  163. 

Sallway,  151. 

Sanford,  46. 

Sampson,  91. 

S.int)orn,  06. 

Sanders,  37.  164. 

SunJcrson,  230. 

Saa.Jy  Point.  3,  7,  40,  111. 

•Saratoga,"  160. 

Sanders.  17,  f;5,  93,  96.  278. 

Savage,  G4,  128,  160,  177,  187. 

S.'.irl,rough    (Scarburgh),   163, 

^^••houler,  143. 

i^cott,  27,  31,  09,  91,  122,  132. 


Scotlands  Wharf,  151. 
"Scruggs,"  266. 
Scruggs,  71. 

Seabrill,  37.  [ 

Seaton,  189. 
Seawell,  54-62,  135. 
Selden,  112. 
Semple,  17,  150. 
Servant   (Servient!),  259. 
Sevier,  201. 

Seward,  143,  144,  162,  273,  274. 
Sexton,  75. 
91,    Shaudom,  93. 
190,    Shadwell,  122. 
Shannon,  270. 
Shapleige,  25. 
"Shenstone  Green,"  274. 
Shepherd   (Shepard.  Sheppard),  43,  152, 

166,  262. 
162,    Sherborn,  245. 
Sherlock,  168. 
Sherman,  209. 
Sherv/ood,  228. 
Shields,  196,  219,  266.. 
Shipp,  95,  164. 
Shirley,  100. 
Shirley  Hundred,  156,  238,  239,  240,  242, 

245. 
Shore,  181. 
Shorte,  162. 
Shrilvehise,  207. 
Sideway,  106. 
Sinims,  250. 
Simmons,  1,  2,  163. 
Singleton,  125, 
Sittenbourn  Parish,  4. 
jJ-Skelton,  2,  5,  13,  14,  99. 
Skinner,  162,  164. 

Skipwith,  29,  154,  156,  193,  215,  264. 
Slater,  261. 
Slaughter's    History    of   Bristol    Parish, 

147,  148,  183. 
Small,  159,  172. 
Smart,  262. 
Smithfield.  28. 
Smither,  93. 
Smith's  Hundred.  130. 
Smith's  Fort.  151,  152,  104. 
Smith's  Wealth  of  Nations,  213.  220. 
Smith    (Smyth),   13,  25,  26,  61,  64,  69, 

93,  95.  98,  99,  103,  111,  161,  165.  170, 

184,  185,  187.  188,  195,  200,  205.  253. 

2.58,  264,  267,  276. 
Snips,  193, 
Snipes,  195. 
Soblet,  31,  32. 
Sorsby,  163. 
Soulee,  31. 

Southall,  94,  95,  98,  194,  195,  261. 
Southey,  231. 
!31,  262.    Soutliern  Literary  Messenger,  247. 
Southwark  Parish,  15. 
Sowersbv,  163. 


:xvui 


INDEX. 


Spann,  48. 

Spark's  Writings  of  Washington,  191. 
Spencer,  120,  1G4. 
Sperie,  277. 
Spilltimber,  1G4. 
Spilman,  103. 

Spotswood,  39,  50,  84,  128,  100. 
Spotsylvania  County  Records,  270. 
Spring,  1G3. 
''Squirrel  Park,"  73. 
St.  Clair,  156,  201. 
Stagg,  137. 
Standeford,  lOG. 
Stanford,  31,  202. 
Stanard,  40,  97,  99,  119,  279. 
Stanhope,  39,  69. 
Stanup,  14. 
Stanton,  39. 
Staunton,  G. 
Stanworth,  17. 
-Stark  (Starke),  5,  36,  75,  95,  97,  112. 
Starkey,  Q5. 
Stead,  *69. 
Stedman,  34. 
Stegge,  1S5. 
Sterling,  137. 
HBtephens,  1G2,  166. 
Stewart,  194. 

Stith,  4,  99,  111,  147,  155.  238,  275. 
St.  PauFs  Parish.  61,  105. 
St.  Peter's  Parish,  70,  98,  123,  182. 
St.  Peter's  Parish  Vestrv  Book,  98,  123. 
St.  Marrs  Church,  130. " 
St.  -^largaret's  Parish,  105. 
St.  John  5  Parish,  107. 
St.  Andrew's  Church,  132,  272. 
«t.  Luke's  Parish,  188. 
Slokes.  2G2. 
Stoll.  195. 

Stone,  97.  134,  208,  209. 
Storke,  205. 
Strachev,  273. 

Stratton,'  Major  Parish,  29,  61,  189. 
"Stringer,  220. 
Strong.  94,  235. 
Strother,  130. 
Stuart.  214.  218.  264. 
Stubbleneld.  194,  195. 
Stubbs,  278. 
Stubbing,  229. 
Sullivan,   135. 
Suttleworth,  164. 
Sutton,  66,  106.  126. 
Swann,  129.  161,  163,  166,  185. 
Swan's  Point,  154. 
Swinnerton,  228. 
■"Sycamore  Spring,"  266. 
Sydnor,  44. 
Synne,  124. 

Synier   (SATumer),  4,  14,  16. 
Svniin<jton,  264, 
Tabb,  121,  18S,  256. 
Talroeks.  24. 


Talbot,  66,  81. 

Talcot,  120. 

Taliaferro,  12,  126,  276. 

Talnnan,  188. 

Tanner,  162. 

Tapscott,  43,  209. 

Tasker,  9,  13,  30. 

Tate,  9. 

Tapley,  263. 

Tayloe,  29,  40,  187,  277. 

Taylor,   1,  5,  6,  7,  8,  27,   120,   133,   136. 

154,  157,  162,  166,  100,  193,  195,  196. 

232,  233,  251,  261,  265. 
Taylor's  Works,  231. 
Taswell  (Tazewell) ,  2,  138,  154,  155,  215, 

237,  261,  262. 
Terach,  236. 
Terossamoh,  24. 
Terrell,  239,  267. 
Terrill,  194.  198. 
Terry,  3,  132. 

Thacker,  96,  97,  99,  133,  200. 
Thackeray,  69. 
Tharp.  6. 
Thayer,  142. 
"The  Byrd,"  92. 
"The  Fo#£re,"  127. 
Thomas,  .31,  106,  1g6,  249. 
Thompson     (Thomas),    65,    67,    94.    136. 

154,  157,  150,  164,  187,  IpO,  104,  277 
Thomson's  History  of  the  Royal  l^'ociety 

172. 
Thornton.  2,  43,  54,  57.  58,  50.   GO.   75 

136,  ISS,  ISO. 
Thoroughgood  (Thovov.-good) ,  124,  275. 
Thorp.  6o. 
.  Thrw.'kmorton,  130. 
Thruston,   51-54,   OS,    102,    103.    115-110 

201. 
Thweatt,  133. 
Timber  Neck,  60. 
Timberlake,  103,  196. 
Timson,  211. 
Tindall.  273. 
Todd.  84.  108. 
Toler,  260* 
Tomkies,  127. 
Tomlin.  97,  99. 
Tooke,  161. 
Tooker,  278.  • 

Toombs,   140. 
Torrev.  135. 
Towles,  43,  100. 
Trabue,  92. 
Trahue.  129. 
Trape,  27. 
Travers,  18. 
Travis,  1.  2,  154. 
Travlor,  21,  278. 
"Tree  Garden,"  232. 
Tregian.  167. 
Trice.  60. 
Trist,  120. 


INDEX. 


XIX 


Trowcr,  194. 

Tnibner,  235. 

Tucker,  28,  68,   110,   138,  148,   153,   154, 

155,  156,  157,  158,  159,  160,  180,  190, 

215. 
Tu^iL'le,  93. 
Turberville,  277. 
Turner,  4,  94,  266. 
Tuttvs  Neck,  14. 
Tyler,  16,  17.  56,  60,  62,  84,  105,  124,  126, 

128,  142,  143,  194,  201,  222,  231,  2.52, 

266,  278,  279. 
Underwood,  100. 
University  of  Virginia,  158,  215,  227,  247, 

248,  250. 
University  of  Missouri,  213,  251. 
Upchurch,  161. 

Upper  St.  Stephen's  Church,  45. 
Upshaw,  98,  125. 
Upshur,  223,  231. 
j/Vadeii.  194. 
Valentine,  261. 
Vantse,  164. 
Vass,  79. 

Vpughan,  55,  57,  93,  95,  164,  195,  196. 
Vaulx,  32,  81. 
Vavasour,  69. 
Valley,  184. 
Venable,  215. 
Vernion,  31. 
Vineset,  93. 
Vines,  256.  203. 
'•Violet  Bank.''  181. 
Virginia  Land  Records,  99. 
Virginia  Britania,  273. 
Virginia  Female  Institute,  250. 
Virginia   Historical    Society    Collections, 

1,  31,  99. 
Virginia  Gazette,  2,  6.  27.  33.  36,  48,  76, 

98,  1.30,  172,  173,  187-191,  269. 
Virginia     Magazine     of     History     and 

Biographu,  18.  99,  186. 
Vivion  (Vivian),  96,  197. 
Von  Hoist,  143.  ,  ^, 

^Vaddington,  44. 
Waddel,  124. 
\\'adders  Annals,  124. 
Waddill,  64,  193. 
Wade,  93. 
W'aldrop,  193. 

Walke,  31.  \ 

Walker,  13,  14,  17,  39,  92,  93,  94,  95,  961 

97,   111,   124,   126.   133,  136,   164,   172; 

193,  194,  201,  256,  26S,  276,  277,  / 

Wallace,  3,  106,  133,  182,  195. 
Waller.  1,  5,  6,  7,  9,  14,  17,  27,  77,  79, 

107,  130,  131,  1.32,  137,  197. 
Wallistone,  46. 
Walniack,  95. 
^^'alpoIe,  17. 
Walters.  82. 
Waltor.  230,  231,  262. 
Walthoe,  7,  9,  15. 


Walton,  202. 
Warberton,   194. 


Ward, 


265. 


Ware  Parish,  57. 

Ware,  92,  271. 

Warner,   136. 

Warren,  66,  124,  125,  151,  152.  161,  1G2. 

164,  166.  184,  206,  267,  268. 
Warren's  Ordinary,  28, 
"Warrenton,"  208. 
Warring,  151,  152. 
Warrin,  161. 
Warrington,  1.  4,  187. 
Washington.    17,    32.    75.    76.    104,    13G, 

137,  138,  159,  191,  223,  256,  257,  262, 

265,  271. 
Washington  Academy,  153,  213,  217,218, 

219,  221,  227. 
Washington's  Lodge,  257. 
Wasliington  and  Lee  L'niversity,  213. 
Washington  College,  153,  227. 
Watkins,  12,  16,  64,  94,  270. 
Watkin,  102. 
Waters,  28,  30. 
Watson,  11,  36,  136,  268. 
Wayles,  193. 
Weaver,  32,  1.35,  193. 
Webb,  6,  143,  268. 
Webber,  93,  94. 
Weeden's   Economic   and  Social   HUtory 

of  X.  E.,  81. 
Weeden,  184. 
Vv'eed,  143. 
Weems.  233. 
Weddill,  66. 
Wedderburn,  90,  206. 
Wei  re,  165. 
Welch,  99,  103. 
Wellford,  264. 
Wells,  267. 
Wentworth,  28. 
Werowocomoco,  273, 
Wesley,  135. 

West,  60,  75,  194,  230,  257.  258. 
West  Point,  230. 
Westmoreland,  63. 
Westover,  5,   190. 
Wetherburn,  5,  8.  15. 
Wharton,  120,  123. 
Wheafeby,  184. 

Wheatly,  2,  12.  » 

\AheIer,   103. 
'•\Miite  House,"  58,  60. 
Whitelock.  96. 

White,  35,  61,  64,  195,  213,  258,  26S,  277. 
White's  Point,  59. 
WhitiniT,  ory,  59.  60,  217. 
Whitaker.  106,  203. 
Whitson,   164. 
Whitt,  194, 
Whit  well,  11. 
Wiatt,  215. 
Wicks,  163. 


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INDEX. 


Wickham,  155,  157. 

Willoox    (Wilcox),.  125,  194,  270. 

Wilder,  133. 

Wilkinson,  28,  194,  202,  208. 

Wilbourne,  95. 

William,  91. 

Williams,  oS,  68,  76,  92,  93,  135,  157,  102, 

103,  104,  184,  194,  271,  275. 
William  and  Maiy  Collcrre,  16,  30,  32,  34, 

37,  48,  55,  50,  02,  75,  70,  111,  127,  128, 
137,  150,  153,  155,  156,  157,  158,  159, 

104,  100,  107,  169,  171,  172,  188,  211, 
213,  215,  220,  221,  227,  246,  248,  250, 
252,  250,  259,  200,  201,  264,  271,  272, 
278. 

William  and  Mary  Quarterly,  1,  2,  17, 
30,  38,  50,  51,  54,  57^  61,  63,  Go,  67,  08, 
69,  70,  71,  73,  74,  84,  97,  98,  105,  110, 
112,  119.  122,  132,  134,  148,  151,  105, 
166,  184,  191,  211,  218,  232,  251,  252, 
265,  275,  278,  279. 

Williamsburg,  3,  8,  9,  32,  33,  35,  36,  39, 
40,  41,  42,  55,  56,  62,  63,  70,  79,  85,  88, 
101,  125,  127,  134,  137,  150,  153,  154, 
155,  156,  157.  172,  173,  175,  177,  185, 
ISO,  191,  215,  216,  217,  218,  219,  220, 
221,  222,  223,  238,  246,  252,  259,  260, 
201,  269,  271,  272. 

Willi-amsburg  Gazette,  76. 

Willis,  7,  16,  81,  93,  90.  98,  122,  195,  228. 

Willison,  222. 

Wills,  3,  134,  194,  258. 

W^illoiighby,  136,  143. 

Wilson,  155,  IGU.  273. 

'^Wilton,"  36,  48.  49,  50. 

"Windsor,"  49. 

••'Windsor  Shades,"  73. 

'Wind-mill,  60. 

Wingfield.  91. 

Winn,  270. 

Winston,  108. 


Winter,  104. 

Wirt,  220. 

Wise,  37,  09. 

Witherspoon,  33. 

Withers,  219. 

Woddrop   (Wodrop),  28,  194. 

WoUn-.ton,  172,  174. 

Wood,  91,  94,  95,  241. 

Woodbridge,  46. 

Woodcock,  194. 

Wood  nil,  271. 

Woodson,  44,  91,  92,  94,  96,  122,  195. 

Woolbanka,  92. 

Wormlj    (Wormely,    Wormeley).    7, 

19,  40,  47,  48,  50,  55,  60,  185,  186, 

265. 
^Vorsham,  133. 
Wright,  66,  100,  106,  193. 
i  Wrose,  09. 
Wyall,  132. 

Wyatt  (Wiat,  Wyat),  195,  211,  277. 
Wyclj^'e,  09. 
Wynne,  147. 
Wyth    (With,  Wythe),  5,   14,   153, 

155,  150,  157,  174,  177,  261. 
Wythe's  Chancen/  R€port<i.  111. 
Yale,  153,  -ZJS,  2i8,  224,  226. 
Yarbrough,  266. 
Yates,  48,  133. 
Yeiser,  253. 
Yeocomico,  47. 
Yeomans,  118. 
York  Parish,  37. 
York  Town,   17,   37,  40,  42,   03,  67, 


18, 
229, 


154, 


173,  188,  189,  190,  204, 


:53.  25" 


259,  273. 
York  County,  8,  9,  15,  16,  38,  39,  65, 

189,  192,  "202,  203,  211,  228,  230, 

256,  266,  276. 
Y'ork  Countv  Eecords,  81,  137. 
Young,  99,  193,  195,  243. 


69, 
253, 

177, 
255, 


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